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020    9781250265548|q(hardcover) 
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092    |fF|aBIRD 
100 1  Bird, Sarah,|eauthor. 
245 10 Last dance on the Starlight Pier /|cSarah Bird. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2022. 
300    426 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-426). 
520    "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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Dance marathons|vFiction. 
650  0 Depressions|y1929|zTexas|zGalveston. 
650  0 Nineteen thirties|vFiction. 
651  0 Galveston (Tex.)|vFiction. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft