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Scribner
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
256 pages
ISBN: 1476786569
EAN: 9781476786568
Kindle: B00IWTWFF4
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From βa top-notch emerging writer with a crisp and often poetic voice and wily, intelligent humorβ (The Boston Globe): a collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history.
The fascinating lives of the characters in Almost Famous Women have mostly been forgotten, but their stories are burning to be told. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, resurrects these women, lets them live in the readerβs imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. Nearly every story in this dazzling collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrityβshe raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter of renown; a member of the first all-female, integrated swing band. We see Lord Byronβs illegitimate daughter, Allegra; Oscar Wildeβs troubled niece, Dolly; West With the Night author Beryl Markham; Edna St. Vincent Millayβs sister, Norma. These extraordinary stories travel the world, explore the past (and delve into the future), and portray fiercely independent women defined by their acts of bravery, creative impulses, and sometimes reckless decisions.
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