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Opal: A Life of Enchantment, Mystery, and Madness Paperback - 2004
by Beck, Kathrine
- New
- Paperback
In 1920 Americans were captivated by the childhood diary of Opal Whiteley, an enigmatic young woman from a small town in the Northwest. The diary, which chronicled adventures in the forests of Oregon at the age of seven, was hailed as a revelatory portrait of a child's relationship to God and the natural world. It became an overnight publishing sensation and Opal, then twenty-two, became a celebrity. Yet the diary-and Opal-was soon dismissed as a hoax. Today the diary has been rediscovered and continues to touch the hearts of many devotees, but Opal's true identity is hotly contested: Was she a New Age prophet and environmentalist, mad genius, long-lost princess, or flamboyant fraud?
Delightfully entertaining and engrossing, Opal tells the story of a beguiling personality and sheds new light on one of the most intriguing literary mysteries of the twentieth century.
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- Title Opal: A Life of Enchantment, Mystery, and Madness
- Author Beck, Kathrine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First - First Th
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-10-26
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0143034294
- ISBN 9780143034292 / 0143034294
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.54 x 0.65 in (21.34 x 14.07 x 1.65 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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