Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels."
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New York (7,400)
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Québec (555)Wisconsin (731)
Illinois (2,704)
New York (9,763)
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Central Canada (3,035)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)