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Author:

Gilman, Susan Jane.

Title:

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street : a novel / Susan Jane Gilman.

Edition:

Target Club Pick trade ed.

Publisher:

Grand Central Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

518 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Celebrities--United States--History--20th century--Fiction.
Ice cream industry--United States--History--20th century--Fiction.
Jews, Russian--New York--New York--History--20th century--Fiction.
Women immigrants--United States--History--20th century--Fiction.
United States--History--20th century--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.

Notes:

Originally published in 2014. Includes "Reading group guide" (p. [507]-518). "Finalist for the 2014 National Jewish Book Award, Outstanding Debut Fiction"--Preliminary page.

Summary:

Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.

ISBN:

1455564117
9781455564118

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959613396

Locations:

CGPC482 -- Marengo Public Library (Marengo)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)