| A Room Made of Leaves Contributor(s): Grenville, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 1922458023 ISBN-13: 9781922458025 Publisher: Text Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Physical Information: (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What if Elizabeth Macarthur--wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney--had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for power in a society that gave women none: this Elizabeth Macarthur manages her complicated life with spirit and passion, cunning and sly wit. Her memoir lets us hear--at last!--what one of those seemingly demure women from history might really have thought. A Room Made of Leaves is set in the past, but it's just as much about the present, where lies have the dangerous power to shape reality. This book is historical fiction turned inside out, a stunning sleight of hand by one of our most original writers. |