The Magnificent Esme Wells: A Novel

  • Autor: Adrienne Sharp
  • Narrador: Saskia Maarleveld
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 10:35:01
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Sinopse

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.

Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne’er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time crook with dreams of making it big with Bugsy Siegel. Devoted to her daddy, Esme is often his ""date"" at the racetrack, where she amiably fetches the hot dogs while keeping an eye to the ground for any cast-off tickets that may be winners.

In awe of her mother, Dina Wells, Esme is more than happy to be the foil who gets the beautiful Dina into meetings and screen tests with some of Hollywood’s greats. When Ike gets an opportunity to move to Vegas—and, in what could at last be his big break, to help the man she knows as ""Benny"" open the Flamingo Hotel—life takes an unexpected turn for Esme. A stunner like her mother, the young girl catches the attention of Nate Stein, one of the Strip’s most powerful men.

Narrated by the twenty-year-old Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre–WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas—a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior. Esme’s voice—sharp, observant, and with a quiet, mordant wit—chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with love and life. A coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir, and a tale that illuminates the promise and perils of the American dream and its dreamers, The Magnificent Esme Wells is immersive, moving, and compelling.

Capítulos

  • 001 The Magnificent Esme Wells

    Duração: 36s
  • 002 Chapter 01

    Duração: 09min
  • 003 Chapter 02

    Duração: 02min
  • 004 Chapter 03

    Duração: 05min
  • 005 Chapter 04

    Duração: 03min
  • 006 Chapter 05

    Duração: 04min
  • 007 Chapter 06

    Duração: 22min
  • 008 Chapter 07

    Duração: 14min
  • 009 Chapter 08

    Duração: 21min
  • 010 Chapter 09

    Duração: 16min
  • 011 Chapter 10

    Duração: 17min
  • 012 Chapter 11

    Duração: 20min
  • 013 Chapter 12

    Duração: 16min
  • 014 Chapter 13

    Duração: 07min
  • 015 Chapter 14

    Duração: 03min
  • 016 Chapter 15

    Duração: 24min
  • 017 Chapter 16

    Duração: 06min
  • 018 Chapter 17

    Duração: 17min
  • 019 Chapter 18

    Duração: 11min
  • 020 Chapter 19

    Duração: 06min
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