{"product_id":"9780743297837","title":"On Borrowed Wings","description":"Author: Chandra Prasad\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780743297837\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Atria Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Dec 2008\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdele Pietra has heard her mother say that her destiny is carved in the same brilliantly hued granite her father and brother cleave from the Stony Creek mine: she is to marry a quarryman.\u003c\/b\u003e But when Adele's brother, Charles, dies in a mining accident, Adele sees the chance to change her life. Enrolling at Yale as Charles, Adele assumes his identity -- and gender -- as a way to leave behind her mother's expectations and the limitations of her provincial Connecticut town. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n To her own surprise, hair chopped and chest bound, Adele falls in naturally with a lively crew of undergraduates: the Jewish Harry Persky with his slick Manhattan know-how, the quiet and mysterious legacy student Phineas, and the lanky, charismatic Wick. And in many ways, Adele faces her freshman year at Yale as would any undergraduate boy: she dreads invasive PE examinations and looks forward to dances, experiments with cigarettes and reads the classics. Through her work with a questionable eugenics professor and her friendship with a local Italian family, Adele confronts her class and ethnicity as never before, all the while fearing that both her crush on Wick and her mother's well-meaning interventions will put an end to her delicate masquerade. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n One part social history, one part comingof-age tale, \u003ci\u003eOn Borrowed Wings\u003c\/i\u003e is an impeccably researched first novel that transports us to 1930s Yale, showing us around through the eyes of an unlikely, appealing female narrator.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871669932190,"sku":"HPC-9780743297837","price":28.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780743297837.jpg?v=1779618871","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780743297837","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}