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04229cam a2200649 i 4500 001 70B8BABA082E11ED9FB3A0BE1E3FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20220720081827 008 210113s2020 nyu 000 f eng d 010 $a 2020304827 020 $a 1982134089 020 $a 9781982134082 035 $a (OCoLC)1105951257 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ITD $d DLC $d SHM $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a u-at-ne $a u-at-ne 050 00 $a PR9619.3.S678 $b W66 2020 082 04 $a A823.3 $a A823.3 $2 23 100 1 $a St. John, Madeleine, $e author. 245 14 $a The women in black : $b a novel / $c Madeleine St John. 250 $a First Scribner trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2020. 300 $a 209 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Originally published in Great Britain in 1993 by AndreÌ Deutsch. 500 $a Includes reading group guide with topics and questions for discussion. 520 $a "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 eÌmigreÌ 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" -- $c Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Women $z Australia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Department stores $x Employees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women's clothing industry $x Employees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen fifties $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Sydney (N.S.W.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 1 $a Sydney (N.S.W.) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 6 $a Femmes $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $z Australie $0 (CaQQLa)201-0195843 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a AmitieÌ feÌminine $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a Grands magasins $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $x Personnel $0 (CaQQLa)201-0082377 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a VeÌtements de femme $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $x Personnel $0 (CaQQLa)201-0056061 $x Personnel $0 (CaQQLa)201-0380431 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a AnneÌes cinquante (VingtieÌme sieÌcle) $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 7 $a Department stores $x Employees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890788 650 7 $a Female friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922609 650 7 $a Nineteen fifties. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037791 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 651 7 $a Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204543 651 7 $a New South Wales $z Sydney. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204574 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726536 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Novels of manners. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01922490 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels of manners. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans de mÅurs. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000667 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l DRPC413 $d 20220720150540.0 $n 14 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=70B8BABA082E11ED9FB3A0BE1E3FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search