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Phantom

Phantom

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 099780629X
ISBN13: 9780997806298
Publisher: Open Books Publishing (UK)
Published: Feb 3 2017
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A story of hopeless love-a serial philanderer and gambler married to a woman much younger-and impossible love-his wife, Casey Googan, and a black boxer. Turn of the century Boston comes alive with crew races, balloon races, boxing, rat-baiting, and fashion competitions judged by Isabella Stuart Gardner. Boston's sculling champion, blue-blood Foxhall Codman, is obsessed with the possibility that the phantom sculler who rowed through him in fog on the Charles River was a woman. Thirty-thousand spectators-Brahmins and geeks, catch-penny operators and thimble riggers-turn out for the epic race on the Charles, a battle of the sexes prefiguring Bobby Riggs and Billy Jean King seven decades later.

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