| Blindspot Lib/E: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise Contributor(s): Kamensky, Jane (Author), Lepore, Jill (Author), Lee, John (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433257610 ISBN-13: 9781433257612 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $108.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is the story of a Scottish portrait painter and his apprentice, a fallen woman from one of Bostons most powerful families who has disguised herself as a boy. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 7" W x 6.3" (0.95 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in boisterous Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Peopled not only with the celebrated Sons of Liberty but also with revolutionary Boston's unsung inhabitants, it tells the story of Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and his spirited apprentice, Fanny Easton, a fallen woman who has disguised herself as a boy, Francis Weston. When Boston's revolutionary leader, Samuel Bradstreet, dies suddenly on the day Jameson was to paint his portrait, Bradstreet's slaves are accused of murder. Jameson, Weston, and the brilliant doctor Ignatius Alexander set out to determine the truth. What they discover turns topsy-turvy everything you thought you knew about the Founding Fathers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kamensky, Jane: - Jane Kamensky is a professor of American history and chair of the History Department at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Exchange Artist and Governing the Tongue, among other books. Her scholarship has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is currently writing a biography of the eighteenth-century American portrait painter, Gilbert Stuart. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons. Campbell, Cassandra: -Original bio sent from Cassandra: Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin Klein's Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie(R) Award nomination. As an actress and director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival. Lepore, Jill: -Jill Lepore, a New York Times bestselling author, is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Her many books include New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; The Mansion of Happiness, short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. Lee, John: -John Lee, a stage actor and writer and a coproducer of feature films, has narrated more than one hundred audiobooks of every conceivable genre, earning forty-four Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award. |