Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson-the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants-who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.
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Fadenheftung
Pappband
mit Schutzumschlag
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-64742-595-1 (9781647425951)
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Linda Kass is the author of three historical novels, Tasa’s Song (2016); A Ritchie Boy (2020), an IPPY Gold Medal Winner in Historical Fiction in 2021; and Bessie (2023), named the Prose Finalist for the eighth annual Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award. Linda began her career as a magazine journalist and correspondent for regional and national publications. She is the founder and owner of Gramercy Books, an independent bookstore in Columbus, Ohio. Find her online at lindakass.com.
