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02628aam a22003618i 4500 001 E10C143E2DF611EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 008 190414t20192019oncc 000 f eng 020 $a 1771336617 020 $a 9781771336611 035 $a (OCoLC)1096471558 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d TOH $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a PR9199.4.K462 $b H37 2019 4 082 0 $a C813/.6 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Kelly, Kate, $d 1960- $e author. 245 12 $a A harsh and private beauty : $b a novel / $c Kate Kelly. 264 1 $a Toronto, Canada : $b Inanna Publications & Education Inc., $c [2019] 300 $a 225 pages : $b portrait ; $c 21cm 490 1 $a Inanna poetry & fiction series 520 $a "A Harsh and Private Beauty, is about the life and loves of Ruby Grace, now in her 89th year, on a train journey with her granddaughter back to Chicago, the city of her birth. When the book opens, Ruby is living in a retirement care home, but as a young woman, she was a jazz and blues singer, once trained for a career in opera. The novel traces Ruby's grandparent's immigration from Ireland to New York City, her father, Daniel Kenny's life in 1920s Chicago--the era of gangsters, nightclubs, rum-running and Prohibition--and Ruby's subsequent life in Montreal and Toronto. Headstrong and talented, Ruby struggled with the conventions of the times, was trapped in a marriage that forced her to give up her singing career, and in love with another man who shares her passion for music. Now, on the train headed back to a city she cannot remember, to a daughter she hardly knows, Ruby tries to look honestly at herself and the choices she has made, choices that affected not only her children, but her grandchildren. Ruby has a stroke on route, leaving the disconnected story of her life and love in the hands of her granddaughter, Lisa, who must reveal a secret to her father, Ruby's son, that her grandmother guarded all her life."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 650 0 $a Jazz singers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prohibition $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kelly, Kate, 1960- $t Harsh and private beauty. $d Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications & Education Inc., [2019] $z 9781771336628 $z 9781771336628 $w (OCoLC)1121277321 830 0 $a Inanna poetry & fiction series. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317021636.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E10C143E2DF611EAB868BF0597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search