Mary

Mary Wydawca: Harper Paperbacks Opis produktu A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum--which is where Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel begins. From her room in Bellevue Place, Mary chronicles her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family and takes readers through the years after her husband's death, revealing the ebbs and flows of her passion and depression, her poverty and ridicule, and her ultimate redemption. Specyfikacja SKU: HARV003248000 EAN: 9780156033473 Waga: 635 g Author: Newman, Janis Cooke Binding: Paperback Pages: 640 Publication Year: 2007 BISAC Category 1: FIC014020 BISAC Category 2: FIC044000 BISAC Category 3: FIC037000