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Cargando... The Sky Clubpor Terry Roberts
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really liked this book. It was just a random pick from the library shelf-I had heard nothing about it or the author but I was totally absorbed by it. Josephine, who chooses the name Jo as she enters her new life, comes from the country in North Carolina and decides to move to the city of Asheville. She is hired to work at a bank where it is discovered that she is a genius at math and where she is promoted to make reports and calculations. She is also drawn to the Sky Club, a speakeasy, and becomes very involved with a man from there. As this is set in the Depression, alcohol is illegal and banks are failing, which become issues that figure highly in Jo's life. None of this may sound exciting but Robert's writing is clear and immersive and he explores several themes in this book. I am now looking for his other titles! ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"When I'm dead and buried . . . you get the hell out of here . . . Make a life somewhere else . . . a life that I can't even imagine." Jo Salter, a woman from the North Carolina mountains, sets about constructing a new life for herself in Asheville in the wake of her mother's death. A life that no one-including her mother-could have imagined. Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy-a woman who sees and thinks in numbers. She secures a job as a teller at Central Bank & Trust, where she recreates herself as a modern woman and rises through the professional ranks. While working at the bank, Jo becomes fascinated by Levi Arrowood, the dark and mysterious manager of the Sky Club, an infamous speakeasy and jazz club on the mountainside above town. When the Great Depression brings Central Bank & Trust down in a seismic crash, Jo is forced to find a new home and job. She finds both at the Sky Club, where she strikes a partnership with the alluring Arrowood as she is drawn deeper into a glamorous and precarious life of bootlegging, jazz, and love. The Sky Club is the story of money, greed, and life after the crash from the eyes of one remarkable woman as she creates her own imagined life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyValoraciónPromedio:
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