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The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures

Caroline Preston

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Description for The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 294.
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt is a literary bottle rocket-loaded with whimsy, pizzazz, and heart. -Adriana Trigiani Is it possible that I have just read/experienced/devoured the most delightful book ever published? Do not argue with me: There is magic here and genius. -Elinor Lipman A ripping yarn of emancipated girlish adventure. -Audrey Niffenegger The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt is a visually stunning, totally unique, full-color novel in the form of a scrapbook, set in the burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s and featuring an endearing, unforgettable heroine. Caroline Preston, author of the New ... Read more

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Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2017

Condition

New

Weight

293g

Number of Pages

240

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9780061966910

SKU

V9780061966910

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About Caroline Preston

Caroline Preston is the author of three previous novels, Jackie by Josie (a New York Times Notable Book), Lucy Crocker 2.0, and Gatsby's Girl, and one scrapbook novel, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt. She has collected antique scrapbooks since she was in high school, and has worked as an archivist at the Peabody/ Essex Museum and Harvard University. She and ... Read more

Reviews for The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures

Impossible to crack open the book without wanting to devour it... a tale of the Roaring '20s illustrated in the dazzling language of trinkets and baubles... the kind of visual candy that coffee tables were designed to showcase.
NPR.org The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt is a retro delight. Meticulously assembled and designed by the author from ... Read moreher own huge collection of memorabilia, it turns scrapbooking into a literary art form. Fans of the Roaring '20s, Nick Bantock and modernism will all find something of value in Preston's nostalgic ephemera.
Washington Post In her whimsical mash-up of historical fiction and scrapbooking, Caroline Preston uses vintage images and artifacts, paper ephemera and flapper-era souvenirs... Apparently no junk shop or eBay seller was spared in Preston's search for ways to bring her fictional heroine to life.
O, The Oprah Magazine, Lead Review In THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT, Caroline Preston, a former archivist, pastes vintage postcards, Jazz Age ephemera and typewritten snippets into a sweetly beguiling novel about a New England girl who trades Vassar College for Greenwich Village on the advice of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
New York Times Magazine Every coat button, baseball card, or gramophone record seems to conduct electricity... As a reader, you are enchanted with Frankie Pratt's life...because her life-so carefully constructed and so elegantly detailed-is not so different from our own.
DoubleX The epistolary novel is ages old, the Twitter novel a la mode, but...The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt-to my knowledge-is the first scrapbook novel...[A] charming and transporting story, a collage of vintage memorabilia...and other ephemera depicts the adventures of an aspiring flapper-era writer.
VanityFair.com An American (flapper) in Paris: Le Dome cafe, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and l'amour all show up in scrapbook form in this novel.
AARP.org The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston is for those who love history, strong young women, and unusual story-telling.
Examiner.com Somehow, Preston manages to make this scene feel fresh
partly because [this] really is a scrapbook, each page composed of artifacts: advertisements, yearbook photos, ticket stubs, menus from the automat, and paper dolls modeling their finest... its vintage graphics and sweet, sincere storytelling make it a pure pleasure.
Boston Globe Literal, literary and lovely...Preston's book is a visual journey unlike any other novel out there right now...Can be devoured in the course of a pot of tea on a cold day [but] pick [it] up the next day just to look at the images.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Selecting from her own collection of period mementos, Preston (Gatsby's Girl, 2006, etc.) creates a literal scrapbook for a young New Hampshire woman coming of age in the 1920s...Lighter than lightweight but undeniably fun, largely because Preston is having so much fun herself.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The vintage scrapbook is an effective vehicle for an entertaining coming-of-age story steeped in the pop culture of the Roaring Twenties. A highly enjoyable read well suited to historical romance fans and scrapbookers alike.
Library Journal THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT is like reading your favorite flapper great-aunt's diary. It's a ripping yarn of emancipated girlish adventure.
Audrey Niffenegger What an amazing, creative, funny, thoughtful dip into the life and times of the inimitable Frankie. I know I'll come back to Preston's wonderful creation time and again; for its color, warmth and whimsy. It's a very, very clever novel.
Jacqueline Winspear [H]ave I just read/experienced/devoured the most delightful book ever published? ...There is magic here and genius. I marveled at every page: at first, just the astonishing collection of souvenirs and memorabilia and then the story-so wry and smart and literary and historically fascinating.
Elinor Lipman A literary bottle rocket-loaded with whimsy, pizzazz and heart. The illustrations are compelling and original, and the prose is perfection in the hands of Caroline Preston... I heartily recommend.
Adriana Trigiani I've been enjoying Caroline Preston's ingenious THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT, a novel made up entirely of vintage images. It's nifty and fun-[and] the plot moves along, too!
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