My Mrs. Brown: A Novel

My Mrs. Brown: A Novel

This â€œimmensely enjoyable tale of empowermentâ€ (Patrick Henry Bass, NY1) about a gentle Rhode Island woman who makes her first journey to New York City to buy an exquisitely tailored dress â€œgets to the essence of why style mattersâ€ (Kate Betts).

Early one September not long ago, a woman with a secret traveled to New York City in pursuit of a dream, to buy the most beautiful and correct dress sheâ€™d ever seen. But sometimes a dress isnâ€™t just a dressâ€¦

Emilia Brown has spent a frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, Rhode Island. She is a genteel woman who has known her share of personal sorrows and quietly carried on, who makes a modest living cleaning and running errands, who delights in evening chats with her much younger neighbor, and who counts her blessings on a daily basis.

While helping to inventory the estate of the late grand dame of Ashville and her lifelong source of inspiration, Mrs. Brown comes upon a dress that changes everything. Itâ€™s a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta sheath and jacketâ€”a suit that Mrs. Brown realizes, with startling clarity, will say everything she has ever wished to convey about herself. As a means to an end as much as a thing of beauty, she must have it. And so, like the heroine in one of her favorite books Paul Gallicoâ€™s 1958 classic Mrs. â€˜Arris Goes to Paris, her odyssey to purchase the dress in New York City begins. For not only is owning the Oscar de la Renta a must, the intimidating trip to purchase it on Madison Avenue is essential as well. If the dress is to give Mrs. Brown a voice, then she must prepare by making the daunting journeyâ€”both to the emerald city and within herself.

Timeless, poignant, and appealing, My Mrs. Brown is â€œa contemporary fairy taleâ€¦a gentle rebuke to todayâ€™s hyped-up fashion cultureâ€ (The New York Times).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781501108617
ReleaseDate 2017-04-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501108617

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781501108617
ReleaseDate	2017-04-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501108617

My Mrs. Brown: A Novel

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