The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel by Caroline Preston


ISBN
9780061966903
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
240
Dimensions
152 x 229mm

For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Frankie dreams of becoming a writer but must forgo a scholarship to Vassar to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau.
Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalogue pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. At Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them, "Vincent," (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a "spinster adventuress" who is paying her way across the Atlantic with her unused trousseau. In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare & Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne'er-do-well Captain from her past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along.
Author of the New York Times Notable Book, JACKIE BY JOSIE , Caroline Preston pulls from her own extraordinary collection of vintage ephemera to create the first ever scrapbook novel, transporting us back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s and introducing us to an unforgettable heroine, the spirited, ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt.
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