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Séries: Grace MacDonald (2)
Why would a runaway Virginia slave—having built a rewarding life in the East Indies as a silk merchant—risk everything by returning to America in 1840, eighteen years after taking her freedom? Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason, as her old friend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal. Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakes a perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sins and crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws may be broken—what sins and crimes committed—in the service of a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . even murder? This novel thrillingly evokes a nineteenth-century America not so different from the present: a time of stunning new technologies and financial collapse, when religious and racial views collided with avowed principles of morality and law.
- Médias
- Papier
- Genres
- General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- Offert par
- W.W. Norton (Éditeur(-trice))
(User: w.w.norton) - Lot
- April 2010 Débute: 2010-04-05Terminé: 2010-04-23
- En vente
- 2010-08-09
- Pays
- États-Unis
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- Information de l'éditeur
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