The Rose Grower

Random House, Australia, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 303 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Random House, Australia, 1999. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of boards have superficial wear. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and superficial wear. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: On a cloudless summer afternoon in 1789, labourers working in the fields around Montsignac, a village in Gascony, saw a man fall out of the sky. The balloon had drifted over a wooded ridge and into their valley. The farmworkers, straightening up one by one, shaded their eyes against the dazzle of the sun on crimson and blue silk. The thing hung in the sky - sumptuous, menacing - like a sign from God or the devil. Then there was thunder and fire, and a man plummeting earthwards. It was the 14th of July. The world was about to change. The timeless story of Sophie nursing the ambition to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the like of which has never been seen in Europe. Then Stephen, the American balloonist falling out of the sky and into Sophie's life - a love story that unfolds against the sensuous green landscape of Gascony. It is the 14th of July, the year is 1789 and revolution hangs in the air closing in on the private world of the Saint-Pierre family and threatening to change their world forever. Michelle de Krester's gripping tale of love, roses and the French revolution is seductive, moving and beautifully written. The popularity of this book has made it *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 009184049X. ISBN/EAN: 9780091840495. Inventory No: 23090158.. 9780091840495