Misfortune (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316154482)

You know who I am. But perhaps you don't know my name: Rose Old. I was unwanted at birth and thrown away, evidence best disposed of. If you consider that, bloodily new to the world, I was bound for a dusty grave and that I was saved only by a distracted boy and a stray dog, it's a miracle that I lived an hour, let alone as long as I have.

Who'd have imagined I'd live to tell the tale, as it were? Fortune patted me on the head at an early age, but it wasn't all walks and treats. We had a complicated relationship. What else do you know? Well, you know I'm alive now, unless I'm telling this story from beyond the grave. I'm Old but I'm not that old and I am not going to die in my story (unless I do it with the last full stop -- that would be acceptable; after all, I haven't finished yet and I can't see the future any more clearly than you can). Rose Old, alive.

Author: Wesley Stace
ISBN-10: 0316154482
ISBN-13: 9780316154482
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2006
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.96w x 1.43d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/14/2006 pg. 36