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Article: Cheever, Susan. American Bloomsbury.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
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- September 1, 2007
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CHEEVER, Susan. American Bloomsbury. Read by Kate Reading. 6 cds. 7 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2007. 1-4001-0362-1. $29.99. Vinyl; content, author, reader notes. SA *
Cheever's erudite yet gossipy literary history is irresistible, full of fleshed-out historical figures who may be merely shadows to high school students. The book covers the period from 1840 to the death of Louisa May Alcott in 1888 and centers on Concord, Massachusetts. Readers learn that Louisa May Alcott had a crush on both Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson when she was young, that Thoreau was devastated when his brother John died of lockjaw, that Hawthorne spent the good part of 12 years in ...