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Author Smith, Dinitia, author.

Title The honeymoon / Dinitia Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Other Press, 2016.
5 holds on first copy returned of 9 copies

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F SMITH    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F SMITH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION SMITH    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  SMITH, DINITIA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SMITH, D    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F SMITH, D.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F SMITH, DINITIA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F SMITH DINITIA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-SMITH    Check Shelf
Description 415 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Based on the life of George Eliot, famed author of Middlemarch, this captivating account of Eliot's passions and tribulations explores the nature of love in its many guises. Dinitia Smith's spellbinding novel recounts George Eliot's honeymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage to a handsome young man twenty years her junior. When she agreed to marry John Walter Cross, Eliot was recovering from the death of George Henry Lewes, her beloved companion of twenty-six years. Eliot was bereft: left at the age of sixty to contemplate profound questions about her physical decline, her fading appeal, and the prospect of loneliness. In her youth, Mary Ann Evans--who would later be known as George Eliot--was a country girl, considered too plain to marry, so she educated herself in order to secure a livelihood. In an era when female novelists were objects of wonder, she became the most famous writer of her day--with a male nom de plume. The Honeymoon explores different kinds of love, and of the possibilities of redemption and happiness even in an imperfect union. Smith integrates historical truth with her own rich rendition of Eliot's inner voice, crafting a page-turner that is as intelligent as it is gripping"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Fiction.
Women novelists -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Biographical.
FICTION -- Literary.
FICTION -- Historical.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. (OCoLC)fst00034497
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Women novelists. (OCoLC)fst01178197
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
ISBN 9781590517789 (hardcover)
1590517784 (hardcover)
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