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The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make their living as a singing act after the untimely death of their father. They begin with little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott's genius is to show how the three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as they navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters - some of them charming charlatans, some of them unpredictable eccentrics, and some of them just ordinary-seeming humans with magical gifts. Using her gorgeous prose and extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville - in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow - echoes the art of life itself.

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Author:   Marina Endicott
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
Imprint:   Allen & Unwin
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9781742378947

ISBN 10:   1742378943
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   01 February 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  General ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Shelly writes: Such a wonderful book! This is a story about sisters and vaudeville and coming into your own. I loved this snapshot of life behind the curtain of the Vaudeville circuit in Canada just prior to WWI. The ‘Belles Auroras' are three sisters who are trying to make their way in the world after the death of their brother and take to the stage to do so under the expert tutelage of their once performing Mama. Along the road to fame and fortune they'll fall in love, get married and meet a cast of unforgettable characters who I'll never forget and always wish to meet.

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Marina Endicott's first novel, Open Arms, was nominated for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002 and serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers. Good to a Fault (2009) was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean.

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