Rose - Softcover

Smith, Martin Cruz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034539044X ISBN 13: 9780345390448

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1997

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Down-on-his-luck mining engineer Jonathan Blair undertakes a mission at the request of Bishop Hannay to find the missing curate engaged to Hannay's daughter, an investigation that takes him into the heart of coal country and into a romance with "pit girl" Rose Molyneux. Reprint.

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ST INTERESTING AND RICHLY TEXTURED CRIME STORY OF THE SEASON."
--Time

The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. As he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her unnatural, scandalous, erotic. As Rose and Blair circle one another, first warily, then with the heat of mutual desire, Blair loses his balance. And the lull induced by Rose's sensual touch leaves him unprepared for the bizarre, soul scorching truth. . . .

"[SMITH] AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM. . . . It is fun, the well-plotted, dense fun of an intelligent, shadowy, literary enigma. . . . Brisk and edifying entertainment."
--The New York Times<

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 034539044X
• ISBN 13: 9780345390448
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384