An edition of On Borrowed Wings (2007)

On Borrowed Wings

A Novel

1st Atria Books Hardcover Ed edition
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An edition of On Borrowed Wings (2007)

On Borrowed Wings

A Novel

1st Atria Books Hardcover Ed edition
  • 4 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

Adele Pietra has heard her mother say that her destiny is carved in the same brilliantly hued granite her father and brother cleave from the Stony Creek mine: she is to marry a quarryman. But when Adele's brother, Charles, dies in a mining accident, Adele sees the chance to change her life. Enrolling at Yale as Charles, Adele assumes his identity -- and gender -- as a way to leave behind her mother's expectations and the limitations of her provincial Connecticut town.To her own surprise, hair chopped and chest bound, Adele falls in naturally with a lively crew of undergraduates: the Jewish Harry Persky with his slick Manhattan know-how, the quiet and mysterious legacy student Phineas, and the lanky, charismatic Wick. And in many ways, Adele faces her freshman year at Yale as would any undergraduate boy: she dreads invasive PE examinations and looks forward to dances, experiments with cigarettes and reads the classics. Through her work with a questionable eugenics professor and her friendship with a local Italian family, Adele confronts her class and ethnicity as never before, all the while fearing that both her crush on Wick and her mother's well-meaning interventions will put an end to her delicate masquerade.

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English
Pages
320

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On borrowed wings: a novel
2008, Washington Square Press
in English - 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
Cover of: On Borrowed Wings
On Borrowed Wings: A Novel
June 19, 2007, Atria, Simon & Schuster, Limited
Hardcover in English - 1st Atria Books Hardcover Ed edition
Cover of: On Borrowed Wings
On Borrowed Wings: A Novel
2007, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Library of Congress
PS3616.R37 O5 2007, PS3616.R37O5 2007

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
Weight
13.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7949124M
ISBN 10
0743297822
ISBN 13
9780743297820
LCCN
2006052623
OCLC/WorldCat
76184249
Library Thing
3402237
Goodreads
801844

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