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Lädt ... Les petites robes noires (Original 1993; 2021. Auflage)von Madeleine St John (Auteur), Sabine Porte (Übersetzer), Heather B. Swann (Umschlagillustration)
Werk-InformationenThe Women in Black von Madeleine St.John (1993)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Set in the Sydney I grew up in, this charming and deceptively simply book was a complete delight. I laughed and I cried. So beautifully and skilfully written in a slightly precious style so aptly suited to the world of David Jones's Women's Departments. Definitely 5 stars. ( ) A brief, easy-to-read book that is brilliant in containing so much within its 200 pages. The story focuses on several women of varying ages who all work in a large department store selling women's frocks during the Christmas-time sales in Sydney, Australia. These are the "women in black" as the saleswomen must wear a black dress provided by the store. With wit and subtle humor, the author cleverly portrays the women in their various life stages from young and innocent high school graduate just working temporarily, to twenties girls on the hunt for husbands, to a middle-aged married cosmopolitan émigré from Serbia. What makes this book successful is how the author effortlessly portrays the longings, the hopes, and fears of these women with spare and sparkling prose that captures various personalities, humor, and intelligence. Additionally, the male characters are also rendered as individual personalities. This is an upbeat, satisfying novel that I recommend when you're looking for something clever and entertaining. 37/2021. This is a novel about the lives of women working in the Ladies' Frocks Department at Goode's Department Store in Sydney, Australia, during the 1950s. Short, fun, female wish fulfilment. Quotes Lol: "the doorman in his uniform of a lieutenant-colonel in the Ruritanian Army" January sales: "The great doors were opened and the phalanx of grim-faced viragos cantered through the breach and down the marble steps: it took a good five minutes for the whole formation to pass him as the Ruritanian lieutenant-colonel, standing well clear, reviewed it." Xmas at the beach: " 'Are you happy?' he asked her. 'Of course not!' said Magda. 'What a very vulgar suggestion. Are you?' 'Oh dear, I hope not,' said Stefan. " keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode's, are run off their feet selling ladies' cocktail dresses during the busy season. But in Sydney in the 1950s, there's always time to pursue other goals... Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode's for years. She's married to Frank, who eats a steak for dinner every night, watches a few minutes of TV, and then turns in, leaving Patty to her own thoughts. She wants a baby, but Frank is always too tired for that kind of thing. Sweet Fay, wants to settle down with a nice man, but somehow nice men don't see her as marriage material. The glamorous Magda runs the high-end gowns department. A Slovenian émigré who met her Hungarian husband in a refugee camp, Magda is clever and cultured. She finds the Australians to be unfashionable, and dreams of opening her own boutique one day. Lisa, a teenager awaiting the results of her final exams, takes a job at Goode's for the holidays. She wants to go to university and secretly dreams of being a poet, but her father objects to both notions. Magda takes Lisa under her wing, and by the time the last marked-down dress has been sold, all of their lives will be forever changed" -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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