Last Night at the Blue Angel
- Autor: Rebecca Rotert
- Narrador: Caitlin Davies
- Editora: HarperCollins USA
- Duração: 9:42:39
Sinopse
Set against the turbulence of 1960s Chicago—a city in transformation—and its legendary jazz scene, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a lush and immensely heartfelt mother-daughter tale about a talented but troubled singer’s relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter.
It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is teeming with the tensions of the day—segregation, sexual experimentation, the Cold War and Vietnam—but it is also home to some of the country’s most influential jazz. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. But when her big break, the cover of Look magazine, finally arrives, it carries with it an enormous personal cost. Sensual and magnetic, Naomi is a fiercely ambitious yet self-destructive woman whose charms tend to hurt those around her, and no one knows this better than her daughter, Sophia.
As the only child of a single mother growing up in an adult world, Sophia is wise beyond her years, a casualty of her mother’s desperate struggle for fame and adoration. Unsettled by her home life, she harbors a terrible fear that her world could disappear at any moment, and compulsively maintains a list of everyday objects she might need to reinvent should nuclear catastrophe strike. Her only constant is the colorful and unconventional family that surrounds her and her mother, particularly the photographer, Jim, who is Sophia’s best friend, surrogate father, and protector—but Jim is also deeply in love with Naomi.
Weaving between the perspectives of Sophia and Naomi, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a poignant and unforgettable story about what happens when our passion for the life we want is at sharp odds with the life we have. Part stylish period piece, part heartbreaking family drama, it’s a novel rife with revelations, a vivid and propulsive page-turner—and the major debut of an extraordinary new writer.
Capítulos
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001 Last Night at the Blue Angel
Duração: 44s -
002 Prologue
Duração: 03min -
003 Chapter 01
Duração: 17min -
004 Chapter 02
Duração: 19min -
005 Chapter 03
Duração: 08min -
006 Chapter 04
Duração: 13min -
007 Chapter 05
Duração: 07min -
008 Chapter 06
Duração: 06min -
009 Chapter 07
Duração: 08min -
010 Chapter 08
Duração: 08min -
011 Chapter 09
Duração: 13min -
012 Chapter 10
Duração: 16min -
013 Chapter 11
Duração: 15min -
014 Chapter 12
Duração: 05min -
015 Chapter 13
Duração: 13min -
016 Chapter 14
Duração: 09min -
017 Chapter 15
Duração: 08min -
018 Chapter 16
Duração: 15min -
019 Chapter 17
Duração: 22min -
020 Chapter 18
Duração: 14min