Copy Boy, Shelley BlantonStroud
Copy Boy, Shelley BlantonStroud
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Copy Boy
A Novel

Author: Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Narrator: April Doty

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2020

Synopsis

“This is Raymond Chandler for feminists.” —Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra"An engrossing work of fiction. An expressive and striking story that examines what one does for family and for oneself." --Kirkus Reviews“Underneath a neatly crafted thriller is a deeper story about social mobility, gender inequality, and the higher hurdles women — particularly those of a lower class — are sometimes forced to jump over in order to make a name for themselves.” —Paperback ParisJane’s a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She’ll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that’s a long way off.Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma’s Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy.Everything’s looking up. She’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her day. But then Daddy reappears on the paper’s front page, his arm around a girl who’s just been beaten into a coma one block from Jane’s newspaper―hit in the head with a crowbar.Jane’s got to find Daddy before he finds her, and before everyone else finds her out. She’s got to protect her invented identity. This is what she thinks she wants. It’s definitely what her dead brother wants.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on July 17, 2020

Copy Boy is a gem of a story about a strong woman in history. Jane has a rough start in life, living in the Dust Bowl. She wants a better life and heads off to San Francisco during the Great Depression. She wants to be a “copy boy” at the newspaper, so she has to fake it. Jane’s success at the paper......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on July 11, 2020

Jane escapes from her abusive father to San Francisco in the 1930’s. To survive, she reinvents herself into Benny Hopper and lands a job as a Copy Boy at the San Francisco Prospect. A story lead she is working on about a young girl beaten into a coma leads her back to her father, who is looking for......more

Goodreads review by Reading_ on October 20, 2020

I could not enjoy this book as much as I wanted to. I just couldn not get into it. I will pick up the book someday again and write a proper review.......more

Goodreads review by Heather~ Nature.books.and.coffee on July 15, 2020

This is a historical fiction novel that takes place in San Francisco during the 1930s depression era. I loved the depiction of the times, and the history of California! I thought it was an easy, and we'll written story! It definitely held my interest and I enjoyed the twists that played out! I think......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on June 22, 2020

I liked this time period book. It does seem authentic in the way that back in this time period, if a woman wanted to get a real "job", they would have to work under an new name or in Jane's case, a man with an new name. When it came to this story, I was not feeling it as much as I would have liked.......more

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