Little Shadows - Softcover

The Little Shadows

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 540 pages. The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters i n the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Cl over, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous, headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make their living as a sin ging act after the untimely death of their father. They begin wit h little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott's genius is to show how the three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as they navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters some of them charming charlatans, so me of them unpredictable eccentrics, and some of them just ordina ry seeming humans with magical gifts. Using her gorgeous prose an d extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curta in, and reveals how the art of vaudeville in all its variety, mad ness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow echoes the art of life itsel f. Seller Inventory # 2396l

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