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Crescent City
by Plain, Belva
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good/VeryGood
- ISBN 10
- 0816137757
- ISBN 13
- 9780816137756
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1985. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Used - Good/VeryGood. 6.5"x9.5". 655 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Set in 16 pt Times New Roman. Tan cloth boards w/dark brown lettering on spine. Publication date on title page. Jacket illustration by Al Phillips. Spine straight, binding tight, pages have light soiling, unclipped. Stains on edges. She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties as a Southern wife and mother and her love for a forbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael is at the center of the whirlwind in a spellbinding novel of divided loyalties and divided hearts. Goodreads 3.73.
Synopsis
Belva Plain captured readers' hearts with her first novel, Evergreen , which Delacorte published more than 30 years ago. It topped the New York Times best-seller list for 41 weeks and aired as an NBC-TV miniseries. In total, more than 20 of her books have been New York Times best sellers. Before becoming a novelist, Belva Plain wrote short stories for many major magazines, but taking care of a husband and three children did not give her the time to concentrate on the novel she had always wanted to write. When she looked back and said she didn't have the time, she felt as though she had been making excuses. In retrospect, she said, "I didn't make the time." But, she reminded us, during the era that she was raising her family, women were supposed to concentrate only on their children. Today 30 million copies of her books are in print. A Barnard College graduate who majored in history, Belva Plain enjoyed a wonderful marriage of more than 40 years to Irving Plain, an ophthalmologist. Widowed for more than 25 years, Ms. Plain continued to reside in New Jersey, where she and her husband had raised their family and which was still home to her nearby children and grandchildren until her death in October 2010.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10206
- Title
- Crescent City
- Author
- Plain, Belva
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- VeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0816137757
- ISBN 13
- 9780816137756
- Publisher
- G.K. Hall & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1985
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