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Daughter of Fortune
by Allende, Isabel
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0060932759
- ISBN 13
- 9780060932756
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 2000. CB5 - A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with the usual library marks and stamps on the bottom outside paper edges, the title page, and the last page plus there is some very light yellowing on the outside paper edges. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. The story of a woman orphaned at birth and raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile by a well-intentioned Victorian spinster and her brother.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Synopsis
Daughter of Fortune (original Spanish title Hija de la fortuna) is a novel by Isabel Allende, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in February 2000. Isabel Allende says "of her female protagonist in Daughter of Fortune, Eliza, that she might well represent who the author might have been in another life. " "Allende spent seven years of research on this, her fifth novel, which she says is a story of a young woman's search for self-knowledge.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW10896
- Title
- Daughter of Fortune
- Author
- Allende, Isabel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0060932759
- ISBN 13
- 9780060932756
- Publisher
- HarperTrade
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Chile Latin American Author Hispanic America Author Latin Americans Hispanic Americans Latin American Woman Author Latin American Women Authors San Francisco California Historical Fiction Forty-Niners 1849 California Gold Rush
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Translations; Literature / Latin American Literature;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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