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Fin & Lady

A Novel

Author: Cathleen Schine

Fin & Lady

Fin & Lady

About This Book

From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s.

It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous,...

Page Count
288
On Sale
07/09/2013

Book Details

From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s.

It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady-giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free-is as much his responsibility as he is hers.

So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the '60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War-Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.

From a writer The New York Times has praised as "sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting," Fin & Lady is a comic, romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.

Imprint Publisher

Sarah Crichton Books

ISBN

9781466837089

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In The News

“Full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to Austen's own.” —The New York Review of Books on The Three Weissmanns of Westport

“A clever, frothy novel . . . Schine playfully probes the lies, self-deceptions, and honorable hearts of her characters.” —The New Yorker on The Three Weissmanns of Westport

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