Quiet Dell: A Novel
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1439172536
- ISBN 13
- 9781439172537
- Seller
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Synopsis
From one of AmericaâÈçs most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widowsâÈ' a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than four decades In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonely and despairing, pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, elegant man named Harry Powers, who promises to cherish and protect her, ultimately to marry her and to care for her and her children. Weeks later, all four Eichers are dead. Emily Thornhill, one of the few women journalists in the Chicago press, becomes deeply invested in understanding what happened to this beautiful family, particularly to the youngest child, Annabel, an enchanting girl with a precocious imagination and sense of magic. Bold and intrepid, Emily allies herself with a banker who is wracked by guilt for not saving Asta. Emily goes to West Virginia to cover the murder trial and to investigate the story herself, accompanied by a charming and unconventional photographer who is equally drawn to the case. Driven by secrets of their own, the heroic characters in this magnificent tale will stop at nothing to ensure that Powers is convicted. Mesmerizing and deeply moving, Quiet Dell is a tragedy, a love story, and a tour de force of obsession and imagination from one of AmericaâÈçs most celebrated writers.
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- Bookseller
- Colewood Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1018186
- Title
- Quiet Dell: A Novel
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1439172536
- ISBN 13
- 9781439172537
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-10-15
- X weight
- 24 lbs
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