2011, ISBN: 9780698109629

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Skyhorse Publishing (2011) Octavo, softcover, fine in black pictorial wraps. serves as a manual to dating, relationships, and sex—and is a wildly entertaining read for people who are… Mehr…

Skyhorse Publishing (2011) Octavo, softcover, fine in black pictorial wraps. serves as a manual to dating, relationships, and sex—and is a wildly entertaining read for people who are single, taken, young, old, gay, straight, or anywhere in between. Creator Sam Greenspan blends his quirky humor, attuned sense of popular culture, and entertaining approach to produce thought-provoking lists about the ins and outs of dating. 240 pp. and notes on author.., Skyhorse Publishing (2011), U.S.A: Coward - McCann, 1978. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. U.S.A: Coward - McCann, 1978. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Very Good/Good. U.S.A: Coward - McCann, 1978. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Very Good/Good. THE BEST-SELLING author of The Salamanca Drum writes a stunning new novel of a munitions-making dynasty and the coura­geous young woman who unravels the century-old legend that still haunts its troubled heirs. For Sarah Goodwill, still reeling in the aftershock of a disastrous marriage, the position of secretary-ghostwriter to Major Charles Storrington seems the ideal oppor­tunity to exorcise a few demons of her own. Sarah will help Major Storrington, confined to a wheelchair by the tank accident that finished a promising military career, to research and write the family history of the Storringtons, an armaments dynasty. She will also serve as governess to his small son. To her dismay, Sarah finds the menage at Maidenshall, the great Victorian mansion built on the site of a nunnery, a decidedly uneasy one: • Elegant, lovely Cressida is patently unable to overcome the blow dealt her marriage by Charles's crippling. Bored, diversion-starved, she increasingly seeks escape in her London fashion career and, perhaps, in the arms of other men; • Adolphus "Dolly" Storrington is a lonely, distracted child who spends most of his waking hours in the company of a fantasy playmate who has entirely, almost unnat­urally, possessed the boy's hyperactive imagination; • The Major, handsome, still powerful, and restive in his wheelchair prison, alternates between bursts of crea tive energy and raging, frustration-provoked outbursts at his family, his servants, and even at Sarah, who is falling inexorably in love with him; • And Henrietta Galloway, the nonage­narian retainer who wanders about Maid­ens hall unsettling whomever she encoun­ters with her ramblings of days long past. As Sarah moves deeper into the family papers, she experiences a distinct sense of something unfinished, unresolved, about the Storringtons. But it is not until her research yields up two diaries ou t of Edwardian times that she discovers a fascinating family legend-the legend of Hannah Knox. In these two accounts-one innocently observing, the other eloquent with the pain of betrayal-Sarah learns of the illicit passion of that earlier governess for another Charles Storrington, and of its bitter aftermath. Sarah Goodwill falls in thrall, as will every reader of this nove\, to the spell of Hannah Knox and to her anguished story of love and betrayal and revenge. Hannah Knox's fate stands at the heart of THE STORRINGTON PAPERS and has the power ultimately to determine Sarah Goodwill's own. Deftly interweaving two eras, two psy­ches into an unforgettably vivid and quin­tessentially romantic narrative, Dorothy Eden in THE STORRINGTON PAPERS has written her most ambitious and evocative novel yet. DOROTHY EDEN was born and grew up on a farm on the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand and has for many years been a resident of London, where she lives in "a very charming old square in Kensington." THE STORRINGTON PAPERS. her sixteenth nove\, shows her at the peak of her story­telling powers. Her rise to international acclaim has been nothing short of phenom­ena\, each novel broadening the audience for her books-five million copies sold in the United States alone-which include such well-known titles as SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE, THE VINES OF Y ARRABEE, THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER, THE TIME OF THE DRAGON, and THE SALAMANCA DRUM. ISBN 0-698-10962-7 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>, Coward - McCann, 1978<

1978, ISBN: 0698109627

[EAN: 9780698109629], Near Fine, [PU: Coward, McCann, Geoghegan, Inc.], Jacket, For Sarah Goodwill, still reeling in the aftershock of a disastrous marriage, the position of secretary-gho… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780698109629], Near Fine, [PU: Coward, McCann, Geoghegan, Inc.], Jacket, For Sarah Goodwill, still reeling in the aftershock of a disastrous marriage, the position of secretary-ghostwriter to Major Charles Storrington seems the ideal opportunity to exorcise a few demons of her own. Sarah will help Major Storrington, confined to a wheelchair by the tank accident that finished a promising military career, to research and write the family history of the Storringtons, an armaments dynasty. She will also serve as governess to his small son. To her dismay, Sarah finds the menage at Maidenshall, the great Victorian mansion built on the site of a nunnery, a decidedly uneasy one: Elegant, lovely Cressida is patently unable to overcome the blow dealt her marriage by Charles's crippling. Bored, diversion-starved, she increasingly seeks escape in her London fashion career and, perhaps, in the arms of other men; Adolphus "Dolly" Storrington is lonely, distracted child who spends most of his waking hours in the company of a fantasy playmate who has entirely, almost unnaturally, possessed the boy's hyperactive imagination; The Major, handsome, still powerful, and restive in his wheelchair prison, alternates between bursts of creative energy and raging, frustration-provoked outbursts at his family, his servants, and even at Sarah, who is falling inexorably in love with him; And Henrietta Galloway, the nonagenarian retainer who wanders about Maidenshall unsettling whomever she encounters with her ramblings of days long past. As Sarah moves deeper into the family papers, she experiences a distinct sense of something unfinished, unresolved, about the Storringtons. But it is not until her research yields up two diaries out of Edwardian times that she discovers a fascinating family legend-the legend of Hannah Knox. In these two accounts-one innocently observing, the other eloquent with the pain of betrayal-Sarah learns of the illicit passion of that earlier governess for another Charles Storrington, and of its bitter aftermath. Sarah Goodwill falls in thrall, as will every reader of this novel, to the spell of Hannah Knox and to her anguished story of love and betrayal and revenge. Hannah Knox's fate stands at the heart of The Storrington Papers and has the power ultimately to determine Sarah Goodwill's own., Books<

1978, ISBN: 9780698109629

Putnam Pub Group, Paperback, Auflage: First American Edition, Publiziert: 1978-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.57 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3507778, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Subject… Mehr…

Putnam Pub Group, Paperback, Auflage: First American Edition, Publiziert: 1978-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.57 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3507778, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Subjects, Books, Putnam Pub Group, 1978<