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The chosen and the beautiful

Vo, Nghi2021
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"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Tordotcom, 2021.©20
Collation:
262 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
ISBN:
9781250784780 (hbk)9781250784780 (hardback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
705252
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