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A Lost Lady
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Series: Vintage Classics
General FictionHistorical Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679728872
ISBN13: 9780679728870
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 16 1990
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679728870
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jun 16 1990
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
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