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Cargando... Louise's Blunderpor Sarah R. Shaber, Sarah Shaber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It is simply ridiculous. In one scene Louise sits down in a pair of woolen trousers and stands up in dress. In another she leaves the office wearing a straw Fedora and takes off her headscarf when she reaches her destination. These types of errors happen when revising, but are easily spotted by a discerning reader. The main plot of this book was fresh, a new roommate was added to the boarding house, and more information on the OSS was included. It is such a shame that Shaber handicaps herself unnecessarily. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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1940s, Washington DC. Government girl Louise is blackmailed into investigating the suspicious death of a missing co-worker, with sinister consequences 1940s, Washington DC. GovernmentGirl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst fromthe Office of Strategic Services - the US's wartime intelligence agency - onlyto learn he'd drowned in the Tidal Basin days before. OSS confirm it was anaccident, and Louise is sent back to her regular job in the file rooms. Her time spentinvestigating Paul Hughes at least has one positive outcome, though: Louisemeets a young woman in the OSS Reading Room, who asks her to join her 'salon',where she is encouraged to talk about controversial issues like racialsegregation and equal pay for women. Socializing with the women helps hercope with her beau Joe Prager's transfer to New York City. But Louise'slife soon takes a dangerous and sinister turn, and she can't help but worry ifshe'll wind up floating in the Tidal Basin herself . . . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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***** The OSS was the precursor of the CIA and it operated during WW2 (check out the biography of Julia Child!). This agency was every bit as disjointed and dysfunctional as the current one and many of the employees, both stateside and overseas were inadequately prepared for the tasks that they were assigned. Enter Louise Pearlie, government worker, widow, a woman of her time but more willing than some to get out of her comfort zone. The publisher's blurb is a good start, but I really liked the whole thing even though I hadn't read any others in the series. It's a nice length, too.
I recognized the narrator from other work she's done, and I really enjoy the narrations by Jenny Hoops!
I won this audio book in a giveaway. ( )