Last dance on the Starlight Pier
(Book - Large Print)

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Published
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2022.
Format
Book - Large Print
ISBN
9781432897734, 143289773X
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685 pages (large print) : photographs
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Published
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2022.
Language
English
ISBN
9781432897734, 143289773X

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Includes bibliographic references.
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"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman-and a nation-struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied-a family, a purpose, even love-waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn't anything this country can't do when we do it together. That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bird, S. (2022). Last dance on the Starlight Pier . Thorndike Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bird, Sarah. 2022. Last Dance On the Starlight Pier. Thorndike Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bird, Sarah. Last Dance On the Starlight Pier Thorndike Press, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bird, Sarah. Last Dance On the Starlight Pier Thorndike Press, 2022.

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