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PeriodicalLarge Print Book
Author Margulies, Phillip, 1952-

Title Belle Cora / Phillip Margulies.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014.
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  LP F MARGULIES    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Large Print Materials  LP MARGULIES    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  LP MARGULIES    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 845 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
Physical Medium large print rda
Series Thorndike Press large print core
Thorndike Press large print core series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-839)
Summary Upon her death in 1919, Mrs. Francis Anderson, a wealthy and powerful dowager in San Francisco society, leaves behind a scandalous memoir revealing her former life as a prostitute and madame. Born Arabella Goodwin to a rich and respected abolitionist family in New York City, she is suddenly orphaned at age nine and shipped off with her beloved youngest brother, Lewis, to live with her aunt and uncle on their hardscrabble farm. When her nemesis -- her cousin Agnes -- engineers Belle's downfall, Belle returns to the city of her youth where she puts her beauty and good-breeding to use, garnering the power and wealth to reclaim what has been taken from her and proving herself a distinctly American heroine : assertive, loyal, vengeful, and unapologetic.
Subject Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Gamblers -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781410469106 (hardcover)
1410469107 (hardcover)
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