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Crooked Heart Hardcover - 2015
by Evans, Lissa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
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Details
- Title Crooked Heart
- Author Evans, Lissa
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, NY
- Date 2015
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0062364839I4N00
- ISBN 9780062364838 / 0062364839
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.7 x 5.7 x 1 in (22.10 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Widows
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015022151
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small-time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.
When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge--a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it.
Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years and raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children, and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self-made crisis to the next. The war's provided unprecedented opportunities for making money, but what Vee needs--and what she's never had--is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team.
Together they cook up a scheme. Crisscrossing the bombed suburbs of London, Vee starts to turn a profit and Noel begins to regain his interest in life. But there are plenty of other people making money off the war--and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all. . . .
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Citations
- BookPage, 08/01/2015, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2015, Page 0
- Library Journal, 05/15/2015, Page 70
- New York Times Book Review, 08/09/2015, Page 23
- Publishers Weekly, 05/11/2015, Page 0