Rose (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Smith, Martin Cruz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067975878X ISBN 13: 9780679758785

Verlag: Random House Large Print, 1996

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Book by Smith Martin Cruz

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A 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 Lancashire coal country and into a romance with "pit girl" Rose Molyneux. (Historical Fiction).

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adventurer Jonathan Blair has been chased by scandal out of West Africa to the stranger land of Victorian England. Gin-soaked and shaking from malaria, he must travel to Wigan, a town in the darkest part of England, to solve the mysterious disappearance of a young cleric.

Nineteenth-century Wigan is two worlds. On the surface is the serene land of the moneyed. But in the coal pits that reach below the surface lurks a separate world where miners eke out their short, violent lives. The missing cleric, John Maypole, has crossed the line between these worlds. He is engaged to Charlotte, the daughter of the bishop who owns the mine. But Charlotte is as cold as ice, and Maypole seems to have had a fatal encounter with the opposite sort of woman, an earthy, unforgettable pit girl -- Rose. In searching for Maypole, Blair finds himself involved not only with the lives of the miners who make the bishop rich and the pit girls who are the scandal of the country, but also with his own shadowy origins

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• Verlag: Random House Large Print
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067975878X
• ISBN 13: 9780679758785
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 529