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Mar 16, 2022 · Laura Kalpakian on March 17, 2022 at 3:44 pm Nice to know! We are about to publish Peggy’s Volume II of her memoir in accord with her upcoming 100th birthday!
The Great Pretenders Laura Kalpakian. Berkley, $16 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-101-99018-6. After a lengthy hiatus, Kalpakian (American Cookery, 2007) returns with a chick-lit homage to 1950s ...
Dec 5, 2018 · For each book I have written, I have created soundtracks, music that I play continually early in the writing process. Sometimes this is thematic, allied to a mood or a certain chapter, sometimes evoking an era. For The Great Pretenders, I was introduced to a whole new musical world, West Coast Cool, thanks to a book that was crucial to my novel.
The Great Pretenders by Laura Kalpakian. (Paperback 9781101990186) The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants?even if she has to break the rules.
My father, to whom These Latter Days is dedicated, came from a vast tribe of Mormon pioneers from Idaho. My father left Idaho and the church early on; he joined the navy, fought in the Pacific, and the war’s end he married a Los Angeles girl and remained in California.
The Great Pretenders by Laura Kalpakian A historical novel’s appeal lies largely in how it brings to life a time that’s past and one about which we perhaps know very little. When I began reading The Great Pretenders (Berkley, 2019), I realized I knew next to nothing about Hollywood in the 1950s, despite having watched numerous films ...
Three Strange Angels. Francis Carson, brilliant British novelist, renowned for his lyrical prose, his drinking, and his womanizing, is a free spirit who crashes through life.
