Songs of Willow Frost : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345522023 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0345522028 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780345522047 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
331 pages : map ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2013]
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Subject: | Actresses Fiction Mother and child Fiction Orphans Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Erlanger Branch | FORD J (Text) | 33126016971255 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | FORD J (Text) | 33126016971172 | Core Collection | Available | - |
Independence Branch | FORD J (Text) | 33126016971230 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2013 April #2
Readers who pushed sales of Ford's affecting Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet to 1.3 million copies (and counting) will rejoice in this follow-up. On a birthday outing, William Eng, a Chinese American boy living at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage during the Depression, sees actress Willow Frost onscreen and is convinced that she is his mother. With a 12- to 15-city tour.
[Page 54]. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2013 September #1
In his mega-best-selling debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Ford depicted a star-crossed romance during the fateful years of World War II. His new work depicts another star-crossed romance, but the real love here is between mother and son. On a movie outing, William Eng, a Chinese American boy at the repressive Sacred Heart Orphanage in 1930s Seattle, sees the beautiful actress Willow Frost on-screen and is convinced that she is his mother. Later, with close friend Charlotte, he breaks out of the orphanage (in a bookmobile, no less) to hunt for Willow. He finds her quickly (an interesting twist, as one initially expects the novel to focus on William's journey), then hears her plaintive tale of actor parents lost early, an abusive stepfather, and love for a young Chinese man who seems on the verge of rescuing her. Then, as the narrative cuts between William's confused reactions and the remainder of Willow's story, both William and the reader come to realize what Willow has done to protect her son. VERDICT Writing in simple, unaffected language befitting both William and the young Willow, Ford delivers a tale his fans will certainly relish. [See Prepub Alert, 3/18/13.]âBarbara Hoffert, Library Journal
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