β Erin Johnson
π Fiction
π
2018
π English
β 203 KB
π 2 views
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The Peacock Feast
β Scribed by Lisa Gornick
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From "one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America" (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.
The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 with Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamiting the breakwater at Laurelton Hallβhis fantastical mansion with its columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and the smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaretβso as to foil the town reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany's prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks behind which Randall, her brother, is playing. Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he stowed away on a train to California. Grace arrives with a box of mementos from her grandfather's...
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