Riven Rock - Brossura

Boyle, T. C

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0747544417 ISBN 13: 9780747544418

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1999

Riassunto

This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women's suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole. Based on a true story of love, madness and sexuality this is a tragic book with enormous depth and scope. Set in America at the turn of the century, it is full of fascinating historical detail.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0747544417
• ISBN 13: 9780747544418
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480