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008 940301s1994 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3569.I28$bD69 1994
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100 1 $aSiddons, Anne Rivers.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50024038
245 10 $aDowntown /$ca novel by Anne Rivers Siddons.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c1994.
263 $a9407
300 $ax, 374 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
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520 $aSet on the cusp of the country's great social movements - youth, women's, peace, and civil rights - in the year before the love turned to anger and the peace to militancy, Downtown is the story of Smoky O'Donnell, her career and her heart.
520 8 $aWhen Smoky arrives in Atlanta in 1966, after an airless lifetime back in Savannah, she is at once thrilled and chastened by this dazzling, hectic young city on the move. Atlanta is one of the first cities to have its own magazine, called Downtown, for which Smoky has been specially chosen to work as a writer. In her heart she knows it is a job that will change her life.
520 8 $aWith breathtaking quickness it introduces her to many unforgettable people - not least among them the magazine's flamboyant and utterly charismatic editor, Matthew Comfort, who helps shape many careers, including hers.
520 8 $aSmoky soon meets Bradley Hunt III, the charming and substantial scion of an aristocratic Southern family who invites her into a world more polished and remote than any she has known. As spring comes to Atlanta, she finds herself in the company of Lucas Geary, a gifted young photographer with a rebel's heart.
520 8 $aThrough the summer, their work takes them deep into the hot, restless streets, and he shows her another world she's never seen - a world populated by shuffling hopelessness, where she meets John Howard, an enigmatic young black man who is a lawyer, freedom fighter, and hero in the civil rights movement, standing at a great moral crossroads.
520 8 $aThe choices Smoky must face, and her ultimate decisions, create a tender, joyous, and powerful story of the end of innocence - both Smoky's and America's - at a time when traditional values are in question and the air is full of possibility. Full of the masterful characterizations, probing insight, and lyrical prose for which Anne Rivers Siddons is justly acclaimed, Downtown is another stunning achievement from an extraordinary writer.
650 0 $aPeriodicals$xPublishing$zGeorgia$zAtlanta$vFiction.
650 0 $aMan-woman relationships$zGeorgia$zAtlanta$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen journalists$zGeorgia$zAtlanta$vFiction.
650 0 $aYoung women$zGeorgia$zAtlanta$vFiction.
651 0 $aAtlanta (Ga.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100654
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3569.I28$iD69 1994