The Resource The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
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- Summary
- "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways. As Layla embarks on this grand adventure to establish historical moments in print, her first friend, the town librarian Ms. Betts wisely cautions: "There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.""--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 491 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385342940
- Label
- The truth according to us : a novel
- Title
- The truth according to us
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Annie Barrows
- Subject
-
- Historians
- Depressions
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueFamily secrets
- Depressions -- 1929 -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- trueDepression era (1929-1941) -- 1929 -- 1941
- Manners and customs
- West Virginia
- History
- trueWest Virginia -- History -- 20th century
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- 1900 - 1999
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Historians -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueFamily sagas
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- FICTION / Literary
- West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueCultural differences
- trueHistorians
- Family secrets
- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueSmall town life -- West Virginia
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Sagas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways. As Layla embarks on this grand adventure to establish historical moments in print, her first friend, the town librarian Ms. Betts wisely cautions: "There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.""--
- Summary
- "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways. As Layla embarks on this grand adventure to establish historical moments in print, her first friend, the town librarian Ms. Betts wisely cautions: "There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity." Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and told through the incredible voices of three narrators you quickly come to love--Layla Beck, Jottie Romeyn, and her niece, twelve year old Willa--this is an intimate family novel of love and family, of history and truth, and of struggle and hope, filled with the kindof characters once you discover, you'll never forget"--
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2015
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10401467
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Barrows, Annie
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.A8373
- LC item number
- T78 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Historians
- Family secrets
- Depressions
- West Virginia
- West Virginia
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Sagas
- Depressions
- Family secrets
- Historians
- Manners and customs
- West Virginia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 5732396
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 491 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385342940
- Lccn
- 2014037515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn895256027
- (OCoLC)895256027
- Label
- The truth according to us : a novel, Annie Barrows
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 5732396
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 491 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385342940
- Lccn
- 2014037515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn895256027
- (OCoLC)895256027
Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCultural differences
- trueDepression era (1929-1941) -- 1929 -- 1941
- Depressions
- Depressions -- 1929 -- West Virginia -- Fiction
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Sagas
- trueFamily sagas
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historians
- trueHistorians
- Historians -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Manners and customs
- trueSmall town life -- West Virginia
- West Virginia
- trueWest Virginia -- History -- 20th century
- West Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- West Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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