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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100679426612
ISBN-139780679426615
eBay Product ID (ePID)1534617
Product Key Features
Book TitleRose
Number of Pages364 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Suspense, General, Historical
Publication Year1996
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorSimon Quinn
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight24.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-037914
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"The most fascinating and ambitious thriller of the year." -San Francisco Chronicle "A joy to read . . . Rich in historical and social detail . . . In Rose Smith has once again succeeded in giving us a book that brings alive a people and place previously foreign. He's made Wigan as real as Moscow." -The Washington Post Book World "Insightful and revealing . . . A complex tapestry of history and fiction, woven together in a framework of mystery and suspense." -The Denver Post From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisRose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan, a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist, Jonathan Blair, is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for "stealing" from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London. Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises to send him back to Africa if he can find John Maypole, the curate who was engaged to his daughter, Charlotte Hannay, when he disappeared three months previously without explanation. Charlotte herself is an ill-tempered young woman who takes an instant dislike to Blair when he tries to investigate her fiancé's disappearance. Other characters include assorted townspeople, miners at the Hannay family mine, and Rose Molyneux, a "pit girl" with whom Blair falls in love. Exceeding even the high expectations of Smith's readers, Rose is richly detailed and compelling--his most accomplished and fascinating novel to date.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.M5377R67 1996
