The Chelsea Girls: A Novel (Unabridged) The Chelsea Girls: A Novel (Unabridged)

The Chelsea Girls: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.3 • 37 Ratings
    • $14.99

    • $14.99

Publisher Description

The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about a twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women's lives—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue.

From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home—a scene playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting up a show on Broadway has nothing to do with their art, and everything to do with politics. A Red Scare is sweeping across America, and Senator Joseph McCarthy has started a witch hunt for communists, with those in the entertainment industry in the crosshairs. As the pressure builds to name names, it is more than Hazel and Maxine's Broadway dreams that may suffer as they grapple with the terrible consequences, but also their livelihood, their friendship, and even their freedom.

Spanning from the 1940s to the 1960s, The Chelsea Girls deftly pulls back the curtain on the desperate political pressures of McCarthyism, the complicated bonds of female friendship, and the siren call of the uninhibited Chelsea Hotel.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
KP
Kirsten Potter
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:31
hr min
RELEASED
2019
July 30
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
647.9
MB

Customer Reviews

kabess77 ,

Loved learning history, characters fell flat for me

This was eye opening on how twisted it was from WWII to the cold war and how witch hunts are still witch hunts no matter what someone is hunting. My reason for the 3 stars was my inability to fall for the characters. They did not have the depth I seek to really fall into a story.

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