Granny Dan
de Steel, Danielle
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0593040759
- ISBN 13
- 9780593040751
- Librería
-
Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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Sobre este artículo
London: Bantam Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; Bantam Press. First UK edition, first printing with full number line. Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, olive endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread and near as new. Cover artwork drawing of a dancer by Edgar Degas. ; 240 pages; She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper. Inside, an old pair of satin ballet shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, a secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. For in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, and love... .
Sinopsis
In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice--as the world around her was about to change forever.Granny Dan is about the magic of history. In it, Danielle Steel reminds us how little we know of those who came before us--and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. For in this extraordinary novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all: an unexpected gift of a life transformed, a long-forgotten history of youth and beauty, love and dreams.From the Paperback edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 30770
- Título
- Granny Dan
- Autor
- Steel, Danielle
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First British Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0593040759
- ISBN 13
- 9780593040751
- Editorial
- Bantam Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fireside Reads;
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