Father's Arcane Daughter
| Year of Publication |
1976
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
118 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Atheneum
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| City |
New York
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| 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.”
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| Notes |
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? |
| Author Biography |
A two-time Newbery Medalist—America's highest award for children's literature—Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (1930-2013) grew up in a Jewish family in the mill towns of Western Pennsylvania and was valedictorian of Mercer County's Farrell High School Class of 1947. She graduated in 1952 from Carnegie Technical Institute, where she majored in chemistry, and she also did graduate work in chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. Konigsburg, a school teacher, children's writer, and illustrator, completed 19 books.
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| Time |
1952
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