| Description |
269 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father's bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection. Lulu begins to "captivate" her friends and family, controlling their thoughts and actions for brief moments at a time. After Lulu convinces a cousin she conducts electricity with her touch, her father sees a unique opportunity. He grooms his tall and indelicate daughter into an electrifying new woman: The Magnetic Girl. Lulu travels the Eastern seaboard, captivating enthusiastic crowds by lifting grown men in parlor chairs and throwing them across the stage with her "electrical charge." |
| Subject |
Hurst, Lulu, 1869-1950 -- Fiction.
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Entertainers -- United States -- Fiction.
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Psychics -- United States -- Fiction.
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Hurst, Lulu, 1869-1950. (OCoLC)fst01730128
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Entertainers. (OCoLC)fst00912655
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Psychics. (OCoLC)fst01081230
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781938235481 (hardcover) |
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1938235487 (hardcover) |
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