03456cam a2200481 i 4500 2771956991 TxAuBib 20260601120000.0 r 260327s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063251144 electronic bk. 0063251140 electronic bk. MWT16271096 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Clifford, Stephanie, author. The Farewell Tour [Hoopla] / Stephanie Clifford. [United States : HarperCollins, 2023. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (336 pages.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a "shimmering" (New York Times Book Review) novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music. It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood. As the novel crisscrosses eras, moving between Lillian's youth-the Depression, the Second World War, the rise of Nashville-and her middle-aged life in 1980, we see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms. Nearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront those choices and how they shaped her life. Would a different version of herself have found the happiness and success that has eluded her? When she reaches her Washington hometown for her very last show, though, she'll undergo a reckoning with the past that forces her to reconsider her entire life story. Exploring one unforgettable woman's creativity, ambition, and sacrifices in a world-and an art form-made for men, The Farewell Tour asks us to consider how much of our past we can ever leave behind. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla eBook. Families Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Women country musicians Fiction. Rural development Fiction. United States. fast Electronic books. Domestic fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast History fast Fiction. Literature lcgft Fiction. Romance fiction. lcgft Western fiction. lcgft Fiction. fast hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15171571?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4534 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780063251144_180.jpeg Cover image CLMPL