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Tourmaline Paperback - 2003

by Joanna Scott

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A vividly imagined novel from award-winning Joanna Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones.

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WATER LAPS AGAINST THE QUAY OF PORTOFERRAIO.

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  • Title Tourmaline
  • Author Joanna Scott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition
  • Pages 279
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-09-03
  • ISBN 9780316608480 / 0316608483
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.34 x 5.56 x 0.77 in (21.18 x 14.12 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Islands
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002102895
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 08/31/2003, Page 16

About the author

Joanna Scott is the author of eleven books, including The Manikin, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Various Antidotes and Arrogance, which were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Awards; and the critically acclaimed Make Believe, Tourmaline, Liberation, and Follow Me. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Award.
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