The Chaperone

by Laura Moriarty

Book Overview

The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is?a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594487014
• ISBN13: 9781594487019
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher