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Description edit
Jazz... Booze... Boys...
It's a dangerious combination.
Every girl wants what she can't have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle-- and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she's engaged to Sebatian Grey, scion of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Gloria Carmody: A 17-year-old high school gal who is from a privileged family and is engaged to Sebastian Grey. She wants to break out of the life she lives and try something new. She is a great singer and seems popular at school.
- Clara Knowles: Gloria's cousin who comes to live with Gloria's family. She is trying to forget her past and overcome the one man she thought she truly loved.
- Lorraine Dyer: In love with Marcus and jealous of Gloria. She is also Gloria's best friend.
- Jerome Johnson: Musician, plays the piano in a jazz band for a speakeasy.
- Marcus Eastman: Best friend to Gloria. A ladies man.
- Sebastian "Bastian" Grey: Gloria's fiancee. He's a bit older than her and is a business man.
- Vera: Jerome's sister.
- Ginnie Bitman: One of Gloria's socialite friends
- Beatrice: Gloria's mother who seems to run Gloria's love life.
- Carlito: A mobster who runs a speakeasy.
- Leif: Bartender for Carlito's speakeasy.
- Harris Brown: New York City politician and notorious playboy
- Maude: Add a description of this character.
- Claudine
- Barnard
- Freddy
- Buster Keaton
- Evan: One of the band members.
- Archibald
- Gloria Carson: This is Gloria Carmody's stage name for when she tries her hand at singing.
- Helen
- Sebastian Grey: Gloria's fiance.
- Marguerite
Setting & Locations edit
Chicago
- New York City
- Chicago
- Pennsylvania: Where Clara is from
- Charleston
- Paris
- Manhattan
- Laurelton: The girls school
First Sentence edit
They found the entrance exactly as instructed: just before the cracked sign for Malawer's Funeral Parlor, between the tailor and the barbershop, through the rusted gate, eleven creaky steps below street level.
Themes & Symbolism edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jillian Larkin (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780385740340
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780385740340
Page Count: 432
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: FIC LAR
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young Adults14-15 + several references to inappropriate things yet set in a a little bit milder tone.
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