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Author Schwartz, John Burnham, author.

Title The red daughter : a novel / John Burnham Schwartz.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION SCHWARTZ    DUE 04-08-24
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F SCHWARTZ    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION SCHWARTZ    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F SCHWARTZ JOHN BURNHAM    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F SCHWARTZ    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  SCHWARTZ, JOHN BURNHAM    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-SCH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SCHWARTZ, J    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F SCHWARTZ, J.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F SCHWARTZ, JOHN    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 268 pages ; 25 cm
Children lcsh
Summary "Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the notorious tyrannical leader of the USSR, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a lawyer in his mid-thirties who is sent by the CIA to escort Svetlana to America. Rootless, lonely, and bewildered by her adopted country's radically different society, Svetlana takes refuge in Arizona with the widow of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, makes a hasty marriage, and has a child. Floundering, she reaches out to Peter, her first connection in America and, it seems, the only person she can genuinely count on. When their relationship becomes more than just professional, it unfolds under the eyes of her CIA minders, and Svetlana and Peter's private lives are no longer their own. The author's father was in fact the young lawyer who escorted the real Svetlana to the United States. Based on his father's reminiscences as well as his own extensive research into Svetlana's life, John Burnham Schwartz recreates this dramatic story of a woman's search for a new life and a place to belong, in the evocative and imaginative prose that have made him a critically acclaimed, bestselling author of literary and historical fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011 -- Fiction.
Children of heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.
Defectors -- United States -- Fiction.
Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011. (OCoLC)fst01774889
Children of heads of state. (OCoLC)fst00855363
Defectors. (OCoLC)fst00889593
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Novels.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781400068463 (hardcover)
1400068460 (hardcover)
9781984853875 (ebook)
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