A Ticket to Ride: A Novel - Kindle edition by McLain, Paula. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Ticket to Ride: A Novel/5(94). A Ticket to Ride. “It was August. For years it was August There was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming from everywhere at once.”. In the long, hot Illinois summer of , insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who’s come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an “unmentionable act.”. A Ticket to Ride is vastly different than The Paris Wife, which I think is a testament to McClain's talent as a writer. This novel absorbed me completely and, unlike a few of the other reviewers, I liked how the story flipped back and forth on the character/time continuum/5(96).
Get this from a library! A ticket to ride: a novel. [Paula McLain] -- The summer of in Moline, Ill., is enlivened and permanently marked for year-old Jamie by the arrival of her charismatic, seen-it-all cousin, Fawn Delacorte. Abandoned by her parents as a. A Ticket to Ride (Paperback) Published January 6th by HarperCollins Publishers. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Paula McLain (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Average rating: (1 rating). Buy A Ticket to Ride by Paula McLain online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now.
Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and has been a resident of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of two collections of poetry, two novels, and a memoir, and lives in Cleveland with her family. A Ticket to Ride: A Novel (P.S.) alternates between Jamie's point of view and her Uncle Raymond's, and as we follow the story arcs of the two characters, the picture fills in and presents the full story. Each chapter is titled with songs from the era, and sometimes, I could almost hear the music lilting in the background. A Ticket to Ride is vastly different than The Paris Wife, which I think is a testament to McClain's talent as a writer. This novel absorbed me completely and, unlike a few of the other reviewers, I liked how the story flipped back and forth on the character/time continuum.
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