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All the Love in the Land, Alice
Joan Lisi, author
Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Market)
Alice, an immigrant from Canada, moves to Los Angeles and marries a man she knows has a scandal in his past. She becomes a socialite and opera singer during the 1920's, and a widow with two children. The Great Depression drives her ambitious opera plans into poverty.
When her new scheme to fame, to build a hotel on the Pan American Highway, fails, she commits suicide 3 days before her son's wedding.
Reviews
Chick Lit Cafe
All the Love in the Land, Alice is a granddaughters loving tribute to her fabulously interesting grandmother.The reader is taken on a journey, not only of Alice's remarkable life of reinventing herself, but of a time of history that saw so much astonishing change.
Joan Lisi's writing is extraordinary and as smooth as butter. Respectfully and carefully compiled letters and interlinking sections where Joan has filled in missing gaps, this is an epic tale and a stunning history lovers dream.
