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Author Bergman, Megan Mayhew, author.

Title Almost famous women : stories / Megan Mayhew Bergman.

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2015.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1620120~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F BERGMAN    AVAILABLE
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Description 236 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Contents The pretty, grown-together children -- The siege at Whale Cay -- Norma Millay's film noir period -- Romaine remains -- Hazel Eaton and the wall of death -- The autobiography of Allegra Byron -- Expression theory -- Saving Butterfly McQueen -- Who killed Dolly Wilde? -- A high-grade bitch sits down for lunch -- The internees -- The lottery, redux -- Hell-diving women.
Summary Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
Subject Women -- Fiction.
Fame -- Fiction.
Socialites -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
Women musicians -- Fiction.
Genre Short stories.
ISBN 9781476786568
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