Una Acompanante en Nueva York

from Bookbets50

The Chaperone is a novel set in the twenties, complete with all of the fashion, customs, and the testing of old morals. It is the story of Cora, who chooses to accompany Louise Brooks to New York city for her to attend dance lessons at a prestigious academy. Louise is a precocious, challenging 15...

from Dmtcer

Cora's life seems just perfect. Her husband loves and respects her, in a time when women were struggling for independence. Her children are grown, and Cora's life seems quiet and sedate. Yet she jumps at a chance to become the chaperone for a young girl whom she does not know. We discover that be...

from CarrieWuj

Louse Brooks is the real part of this historical fiction. Cora Carlisle as her chaperone in NYC is not. But it makes for a great story. Headed to the city for the summer so Louise can dance with the prestigious Denishaw company, Cora has her own agenda to accomplish. She had been sent west on an ...

from MooqieLove

This is a well researched book following a woman in the 1920s as she chaperone's the ill behaved Louise Brooks (the soon to be silent film star) on her trip to New York City. While I didn't, and still don't, know too much about Louise Brooks, this is a fascinating look at how quickly the structur...

from Florinda

When she was chosen to spend the summer of 1922 studying with the Denishawn Dance Company in New York City, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks--several years away from becoming a silent-film superstar--intended to make it one-way trip out of Wichita, Kansas. But a fifteen-year-old girl doesn't make a...