Description. Beginner’s Luck is a story of belonging, and the love and courage it can instill within the human heart. And paradoxically, the freedom and feeling of independence that a sense of belonging kindles in a soul that is hungry for life in all its glories and disappointments. Hallie Palmer is a spirited year-old girl in a midwestern town who is suffocating in her Christian home and bored by her high Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Beginner's Luck By Laura Pedersen Published by Ballantine Books (Trade Paperback) January ; ; pages: Read Book Synopsis. Author /Bibliography. Read Review. Read Excerpt. 1. Down and Out in Cosgrove County It's only midafternoon and already the whole day is a bust. I may only be a sixteen-year-old girl, but I'm an experienced. · Beginner's Luck. by Laura Pedersen. The expression "beginner's luck" may be the chosen title of Laura Pedersen's new novel but it certainly could not be used to describe the book. Author of GOING AWAY PARTY and PLAY MONEY: My Brief but Brilliant Career on Wall Street, Pedersen is still a relatively young writer.
The sassy memoirs of a still young woman who had a short and bittersweet but financially rewarding career as an index options trader at the American Stock Exchange. Having quit the Univ. of Michigan after just one semester, Pedersen headed for Wall Street. Starting as an ASE clerk at age 18 in January , she earned a partnership in a specialist firm (and an exchange membership) shortly. In BEGINNER'S LUCK, Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of Cosgrove County, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts-and none more so than Hallie Palmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life is a gamble and sometimes you have to bet the house. Beginner's Luck is a story of belonging, and the love and courage it can instill within the human heart. And paradoxically, the freedom and feeling of independence that a sense of belonging kindles in a soul that is hungry for life in all its glories and disappointments. Hallie Palmer is a spirited year-old girl in a midwestern town who is.
Beginner's Luck. by Laura Pedersen. The expression "beginner's luck" may be the chosen title of Laura Pedersen's new novel but it certainly could not be used to describe the book. Author of GOING AWAY PARTY and PLAY MONEY: My Brief but Brilliant Career on Wall Street, Pedersen is still a relatively young writer. Laura Pedersen is an author, humorist, and playwright. She was also the youngest person at age 20 to have a seat on the American Stock Exchange, while earning a finance degree at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She wrote about that experience in her first book, Play Money, which received rave reviews and became a bestseller. Beginner's Luck by Laura Pedersen. Publication Date: January 1, ; Genres: Fiction; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Ballantine Books; ISBN ; ISBN
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