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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.
About the Author
Adrienne Sharp is the author of White Swan, Black Swan (Random House, 2001) , a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection; The Sleeping Beauty (Riverhead, 2005) , named one of Booklist's Ten Best First Novels of 2005; and The True Memoirs of Little K (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) , a finalist for the California Book Award and translated into six languages. Her new novel, The Magnificent Esme Wells, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in April 2018.
