American Rose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781977543561)

Vendor: Julia Markus
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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American Rose

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American Rose

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Format: Paperback
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Rose was born to a family of extraordinary women. Her immigrant great-grandmother, the first Rose, a shrewd and beautiful fortune-teller, who gave abortions to make "a little extra"...Proud Etta, matriarch, lover of costly things, who kept a fine home with a firm hand...Delicate Helen, musical prodigy, who soared on her talent into madness. Now Rose-American Rose-must face up to all their lives in order to claim her own.

Author: Julia Markus
ISBN-10: 1977543561
ISBN-13: 9781977543561
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2017
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.65d
By Julia Markus
By Julia Markus
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Julia Markus, an English professor at Hofstra University, received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for her first novel, Uncle, which was followed by three well-received novels, American Rose, Friends Along the Way and A Change of Luck, as well as her critically acclaimed biographies, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning and Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two National Endowment for the Humanities grants.

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