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Title details for Time's a Thief by B.G. Firmani - Available

Time's a Thief

A Novel

by B.G. Firmani
Emily Rankin
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Eighties New York springs to gritty, vibrant life in this piercingly romantic and compulsively readable coming-of-age novel. A beautiful, sad, funny, altogether bewitching debut
Francesca "Chess" Varani is an ultra-bright, sassy, but vulnerable Barnard freshwoman from a blue-collar background in the vibrantly gritty New York City of the mid-eighties. She strikes up a volatile and somewhat toxic friendship with drama-queen classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein, and falls into the bewitching orbit of her Salingeresque, high-toned family. Upon graduation, she moves into the Marr-Löwenstein house in the West Village as a secretary/girl-of-all-work to the soignèe literary intellectual Clarice Marr (think Susan Sontag but blondly coiffed and dressed in Chanel) and receives the sentimental education and emotional roughing up New York bestows on all of its new arrivals—including a love affair with Clarice's glamorously damaged son, Jerry.The story is related by Chess in sadder but wiser fashion from the distance of a financially beset 2008 and the depths of a crap job taken of necessity, tinged with the poignancy of time and choices made and not made.

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    May 2, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781524755690
      • File size: 390503 KB
      • Duration: 13:33:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Firmani has crafted a truthful coming-of-age story filled with complex emotions and credible situations. Francesca "Chess" Varani is in her first year at Barnard College in 1980s New York. Narrator Emily Rankin illuminates Chess's character--innocent, easily impressed, dreamy, and hopeful. Chess becomes enthralled with classmate Kendrick Marr-L�wenstein, a rebellious Manhattan sophisticate. She finds Kendra's outrageous attitudes and behaviors appealing. Later, Chess is hired as a personal assistant to Kendra's mother, feminist author Clarice Marr. Rankin portrays the Marr-L�wensteins with all their upper-crust eccentricities in place. She also highlights Firmani's impressive portrait of New York City from the 1980s through the events of 9/11. Chess experiences obsession, acceptance, betrayal, and, ultimately wisdom, in a debut novel that will fully engage listeners. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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