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Item specifics

Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the book cover but the book is still ...
Release Year
2023
ISBN
9780525436089

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525436081
ISBN-13
9780525436089
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057244559

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dangerous Business : a Novel
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jane Smiley
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-007952
TitleLeading
A
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of A Thousand Acres : An amazing "mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and a feminist-inflected tale of life in a bordello" ( The Washington Post). In 1850s Gold Rush California two young prostitutes, best friends Eliza and Jean, attempt to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West--a bewitching combination of beauty and danger--as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. "Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise..." Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West--a bewitching combination of beauty and danger--as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, "Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise ..."
LC Classification Number
PS3569.M39D36 2022

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