Adrienne Sharp
Magnificent Esme Wells, The Paperback Book
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girlthe daughter of a twobit gangster and a movie showgirlgrowing up in goldenage Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming neerdowell father, Ike Silver, a smalltime crook with dreams of making it big with Bugsy Siegel. Devoted to her daddy, Esme is often his "date" at the racetrack, where she amiably fetches the hot dogs while keeping an eye to the ground for any castoff tickets that may be winners.In awe of her mother, Dina Wells, Esme is more than happy to be the foil who gets the beautiful Dina into meetings and screen tests with some of Hollywoods greats. When Ike gets an opportunity to move to Vegasand, in what could at last be his big break, to help the man she knows as "Benny" open the Flamingo Hotellife takes an unexpected turn for Esme. A stunner like her mother, the young girl catches the attention of Nate Stein, one of the Strips most powerful men.Narrated by the twentyyearold Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between preWWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegasa golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior. Esmes voicesharp, observant, and with a quiet, mordant witchronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with...
Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: FV; Weight: 392 g; Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 25
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From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girlthe daughter of a twobit gangster and a movie showgirlgrowing up in goldenage Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days.Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming neerdowell father, Ike Silver, a smalltime crook with dreams of making it big with Bugsy Siegel. Devoted to her daddy, Esme is often his "date" at the racetrack, where she amiably fetches the hot dogs while keeping an eye to the ground for any castoff tickets that may be winners.In awe of her mother, Dina Wells, Esme is more than happy to be the foil who gets the beautiful Dina into meetings and screen tests with some of Hollywoods greats. When Ike gets an opportunity to move to Vegasand, in what could at last be his big break, to help the man she knows as "Benny" open the Flamingo Hotellife takes an unexpected turn for Esme. A stunner like her mother, the young girl catches the attention of Nate Stein, one of the Strips most powerful men.Narrated by the twentyyearold Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between preWWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegasa golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior. Esmes voicesharp, observant, and with a quiet, mordant witchronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with...
Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: FV; Weight: 392 g; Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 25
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
Click here to view our full Returns Policy.
Adrienne Sharp
Magnificent Esme Wells, The Paperback Book
“Refund was approved and back in my account the same day.” - Deliver+ customer
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