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THE SWAN GONDOLA.
de Schaffert, Timothy
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594486093
- ISBN 13
- 9781594486098
- Librería
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New York:: Riverhead Books,, 2014.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Novel set against the backdrop of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair - or the Trans-Mississippi and International Expositio Author's note, 458 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Sinopsis
A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair. On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn’t quite sure how it will change him or his city. Omaha still has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair. One of a traveling troupe of actors that has descended on the city, Cecily works in the Midway’s Chamber of Horrors, where she loses her head hourly on a guillotine playing Marie Antoinette. And after closing, she rushes off, clinging protectively to a mysterious carpetbag, never giving Ferret a second glance. But a moonlit ride on the swan gondola, a boat on the lagoon of the New White City, changes everything, and the fair’s magic begins to take its effect. From the critically acclaimed author of The Coffins of Little Hope , The Swan Gondola is a transporting read, reminiscent of Water for Elephants or The Night Circus .
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 69319
- Título
- THE SWAN GONDOLA.
- Autor
- Schaffert, Timothy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1594486093
- ISBN 13
- 9781594486098
- Editorial
- Riverhead Books,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014.
- Palabras clave
- omaha,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Historical Fiction;
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