Charleston: A Novel
Margaret Bradham Thornton
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Description for Charleston: A Novel
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal question: can we ever truly go home again? When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now almost a decade later, she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, her childhood love, at a wedding ... Read more
A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal question: can we ever truly go home again? When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now almost a decade later, she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, her childhood love, at a wedding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Ecco
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062332523
SKU
V9780062332523
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Margaret Bradham Thornton
Margaret Bradham Thornton is the editor of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks, for which she received the Bronze ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for Autobiography/Memoir and the C. Hugh Holman Prize for the best volume of southern literary scholarship, given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. She is a native of Charleston, a graduate of Princeton University, ... Read more
Reviews for Charleston: A Novel
"In the tradition of great Southern novels, this lyrical tale explores the emotional terrain of love, loss, and memory. It's about the tug of a person and of a place, leading us to confront what it means to look homeward again."
Walter Isaacson "The real femme fatale is the city itself, a place where the breeze in the laurel ... Read more
Walter Isaacson "The real femme fatale is the city itself, a place where the breeze in the laurel ... Read more