@book{418, keywords = {people with disabilities, kidnappings}, author = {E. L. Konigsburg}, title = {Father's Arcane Daughter}, abstract = {Winston Carmichael unravels layers of mystery in his family life that began in 1952 when a woman appeared at his home claiming to be his half-sister. Caroline Carmichael, supposedly kidnapped 17 years ago, is Winston’s father’s daughter from a previous marriage. “But questions of identity,” wrote Kirkus Reviews, “become moot as the new Caroline helps Winston escape from the psychological prison of the Carmichaels; Pittsburgh mansion . . . Pittsburgh coffee shops, department stores, and neighborhoods are fondly documented while the Carmichaels assume an air of benign enigma that is, truly, arcane.”}, year = {1976}, pages = {118 p.}, publisher = {Atheneum}, address = {New York}, note = {
E.L. Konigsburg claimed Father's Arcane Daughter as her favorite book. Scholastic reprinted it in paperback as My Father's Daughter, and n 1990 Hallmark Hall of Fame produced it as a two-hour television drama on CBS under the title Caroline?
}, language = {English}, }