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A Northern Light.
de Jennifer Donnelly
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- ISBN 10
- 0152053107
- ISBN 13
- 9780152053109
- Librería
-
Peninsula, Ohio, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Harcourt , 2003. Trade Paperback. Very Good. NICE BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & VERY MILD SHELF WEAR ON COVER. LIGHTLY AGED PAGES, NAME INSIDE COVER BUT NO MARKINGS IN TEXT. Description: Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original. Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.
Sinopsis
Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories. The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to marry her. And the secret dreams that keep her going--visions of finishing high school, going to college in New York City, becoming a writer. Yet when the drowned body of a young woman turns up at the hotel where Mattie works, all her words are useless. But in the dead woman's letters, Mattie again finds her voice, and a determination to live her own life. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16934
- Título
- A Northern Light.
- Autor
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0152053107
- ISBN 13
- 9780152053109
- Editorial
- Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
Términos de venta
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