The World Before Her
by Deborah Weisgall
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618746579
- ISBN 13
- 9780618746576
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Synopsis
Marian Evanswho writes under the pen name George Eliothas come to Venice on her honeymoon. It is 1880 and she is newly married to John Cross, twenty years her junior. She has come to this city of canals and bridges to start again, to forget the death of her longtime partner, George Henry Leweswith whom she shared twenty five years of happiness and art. In this new marriage, in this intensely romantic place, can she give herself the happy ending that she provided for Middlemarch’s Dorothea Brooke? A century later, sculptor Caroline Spingold takes us to Venice again. Scarred by her father’s abandonment just after she and her parents spent a summer in the city, Caroline vowed never to return. But now her powerful, wealthy older husband has brought her back against her will, to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Told in alternating chapters subtly linked by themes of art, love, and the challenges of marriage, The World Before Her tells of two women, their surprising similarities, and the reckoning Venice will force them to make with their desire, their memories, and their very selves.
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- Bookseller
- Jane Addams Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 162979
- Title
- The World Before Her
- Author
- Deborah Weisgall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618746579
- ISBN 13
- 9780618746576
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- May 2008
- Pages
- 288
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