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The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls Author: Anton DiSclafani

ISBN: 9780755395187 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 392 Published: 11 June 2013 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.7 x 13.6 x 3.0 Description: 1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood.

Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess.

At the camp, young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one. It's a world so rarefied as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...

About the Author

Anton DiSclafani, was raised in northern Flo...

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