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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100544242181
ISBN-139780544242180
eBay Product ID (ePID)219304587
Product Key Features
Book TitleTurquoise
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Native American & Aboriginal, Historical, Fantasy / Historical
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction
AuthorAnya Seton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-005414
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisFirst published in 1946, The Turquoise was the great historical novelist Anya Seton's third novel. It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s--only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe., "Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. This reader for one, enjoyed The Turquoise enormously." -- New York Times "With accurate historical background, Anya Seton has constructed a touchingly tragic story of a girl who tried so hard to find happiness that she lost everything in her search. The life of Santa Fe Cameron lingers long in memory." -- Springfield Republican Santa Fe Cameron was named for the town where she was born, because her Scottish father and a distressed priest could agree on no other name. When she is seven years old, the unexpected death of her father makes her an orphan. Shortly thereafter, a Navajo shaman recognizes her psychic powers and gives her a turquoise pendant as a keepsake. This turquoise, the Indian symbol of the spirit, dominates her life. She eventually leaves the simple beauty of her native New Mexico to search for happiness in the opulent New York of the 1870s. For "Fey," life is made up of violent contrasts: the rough wagon that brings her East and the scented carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenue mansion; the glittering world of the Astors and a dreary cell in the Tombs. All the color, excitement, and rich period detail that distinguish Anya Seton's novels are here, together with one of her most unusual heroines.