Item #12336 Daughter of Fortune. Isabel Allende.

Daughter of Fortune

New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 6.5"X9.5"X1.5"; 399 pgs. First printing. Deckled edges. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Golden yellow flypaper with black lace design. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Secure ship w/track #. Near Fine-Collectible / Near Fine. Item #12336
ISBN: 9780060194918

"Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep."-Goodreads.

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