02398cam a2200385 i 4500 623888710 TxAuBib 20210310120000.0 201002s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020947284 9781432885724 hardcover 1432885723 hardcover DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda TxAuBib DLC TxAuBib rda Little, Judithe, author. The Chanel Sisters / Judithe Little. Large print. Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2021. 559 pages 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel know they're destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they've grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive. The walls of the convent can't shield them forever, and when they're finally of age, the Chanel sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propels them out of poverty and to the stylish cafés of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy--and to a small hat shop on the rue Cambon in Paris, where a boutique business takes hold and expands to the glamorous French resort towns. But the sisters' lives are again thrown into turmoil when World War I breaks out, forcing them to make irrevocable choices, and they'll have to gather the courage to fashion their own places in the world, even if apart from each other"-- Provided by publisher. 20210310. Chanel, Coco 1883-1971 Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Fashion designers France Paris Fiction. World War I, 1914-1918 Fiction. Social classes Fiction. Foundlings Fiction. Biographical fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Large print books. lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL