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Twilight Paperback - 2006
by Mosby, Katherine
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- Paperback
This is the unforgettable story of one woman's sexual and political awakening in the years preceding World War II. Lavinia Gibbs avoids a stifling marriage, enraging her socially prominent parents, and sails off to Europe to rebuild and discover her life.
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Details
- Title Twilight
- Author Mosby, Katherine
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - VG+
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY 10022-5299
- Date 2006
- Bookseller's Inventory # 132205
- ISBN 9780060936969 / 0060936967
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.3 x 0.74 in (20.40 x 13.46 x 1.88 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: French
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Love stories
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Award-winning novelist Katherine Mosby examines the complex landscape of adultery while depicting a woman's unlikely blossoming in the face of war. Lavinia Gibbs defies social convention and family expectations in New York in the 1930s when she breaks off a passionless engagement to a prominent banker. Instead of surrendering to an invisible spinsterhood, Lavinia moves to Paris, where, on the verge of World War II, her sexual and political awakening collide in an unforgettable tale.
First line
It would be misleading to say that the course of Lavinia's life was diverted by a kiss, or that a chance remark would change the continent on which she lived, although both things were true.