The Rose Grower [electronic resource]
Michelle de Kretser2012
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On a cloudless summer afternoon in 1789, labourers working in the fields around
Montsignac, a village in Gascony, saw a man fall out of the sky.
The balloon had drifted over a wooded ridge and into their valley. The
farmworkers, straightening up one by one, shaded their eyes against the dazzle
of the sun on crimson and blue silk. The thing hung in the sky - sumptuous,
menacing - like a sign from God or the devil. Then there was thunder and fire,
and a man plummeting earthwards. It was the 14th of July. The world was about to
change.
The timeless story of Sophie nursing the ambition to create a repeat-flowering
crimson rose, the like of which has never been seen in Europe. Then Stephen, the
American balloonist falling out of the sky and into Sophie's life - a love story
that unfolds against the sensuous green landscape of Gascony. It is the 14th of
July, the year is 1789 and revolution hangs in the air closing in on the private
world of the Saint-Pierre family and threa...
Main title:
The Rose Grower [electronic resource] / Michelle de Kretser
Author:
Michelle de Kretser, Author
Imprint:
Australia : Random House Australia, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (303 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781742749426
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
435875
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