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A National Bestselling Author
Narrated by the twenty-year-old Esme, daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre–WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas — a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable from each other. Esme’s voice — sharp, observant, with a quiet, mordant wit — chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with love and life, in a coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir.
“Sharp’s novel, like Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (2017), is propulsive and profound.”
— Booklist (starred)
“This glittering noirish tragedy, with its lushly imagined period landscape and subtle feminist trajectory, is both fun to read and sad to think about.”
— starred, Kirkus Reviews
