EAN: 9781451661545

THE SILVER STAR - JEANNETTE WALLS KARTONIERT (TB)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon  Jeannette
Walls's gripping novel transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the
extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to
do may be to not run away (O  The Oprah Magazine). It is 1970 in a small town in California.
Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister  Liz  is fifteen when their artistic mother  Charlotte 
takes off to find herself  leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean
returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house  she and Liz decide to take
the bus to Virginia  where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's
been in Charlotte's family for generations. An impetuous optimist  Bean soon discovers who her
father was  and hears stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is
tight  and the sisters start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox  foreman of the
mill in town  who bullies his workers  his tenants  his children  and his wife. Liz is
whip-smart-an inventor of word games  reader of Edgar Allan Poe  nonconformist. But when school
starts in the fall  it's Bean who easily adjusts  and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn.
And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox. Jeannette Walls has written a deeply
moving novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other
and the world  despite its flaws and injustices.

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