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Lucky : A novel

✍ Scribed by Jane Smiley

Book ID: 115095350
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 487 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780593535028

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✦ Synopsis

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize -winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times
Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky--and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then--through a combination of hard work and serendipity--she started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York City, from the English countryside to the tropical beaches of St. Thomas, from Cleveland to Los Angeles, and back again. Jodie comes of age in recording studios, backstage, and on tour, and she tries to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Joni Mitchell. Yet it feels like something is missing. Could it be true love? Or is that...

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