| Pasadena Contributor(s): Ebershoff, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812968484 ISBN-13: 9780812968484 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: From the award-winning author of "The Danish Girl and "The Rose City, "Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda's father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. "Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003272864 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5" W x 8" (1.05 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda's father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation. |