The Little Shadows
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Endicott, Marina, PUBLISHER: Doubleday Canada, Here is ong>theong> eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault, was shortlisted for ong>theong> prestigious Giller Prize and won ong>theong> Commonwealth Prize for Canada and ong>theong> Caribbean. ong>Theong> Little ong>Shadowsong> revolves around three sisters in ong>theong> world of vaudeville before and during ong>theong> First World War. We follow ong>theong> lives of all three in turn: Aurora, ong>theong> eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when ong>theong> book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and ong>theong> youngest sister, joyous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. ong>Theong> girls, overseen by ong>theong>ir fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make ong>theong>ir living as a singing act after ong>theong> untimely death of ong>theong>ir faong>theong>r. ong>Theong>y begin with little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott's genius is to show how ong>theong> three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as ong>theong>y navigate ong>theong>ir way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters - some of ong>theong>m charming charlatans, some of ong>theong>m unpredictable eccentrics, and some of ong>theong>m just ordinary-seeming humans with magical gifts. Using her gorgeous prose and extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto ong>theong> brightly lit stage and ong>theong>n into ong>theong> little ong>shadowsong> that lurk behind ong>theong> curtain, and reveals how ong>theong> art of vaudeville -- in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow -- echoes ong>theong> art of life itself.