Rose
Smith, Martin Cruz
1942-
creator
text
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
nyu
New York
Ballantine Books
2000, c1996
2000
1st Ballantine books domestic ed.
monographic
eng
400 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. When he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her unnatural, scandalous, erotic. As Rose and Blair circle one another, first warily, then with the heat of mutual desire, Blair loses his balance. And the lull induced by Rose's sensual touch leaves him unprepared for the bizarre, soul-scorching truth.
juvenile
Martin Cruz Smith.
"This edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc."
Man-woman relationships
England
Lancashire
Fiction
Women coal miners
England
Lancashire
Fiction
Mining engineers
England
Lancashire
Fiction
Missing persons
England
Lancashire
Fiction
Lancashire (England)
History
Fiction
PS3569.M5377.R67 2000
813/.54
034541232X
034542252X (pbk.) :
9780345422521 (pbk.)
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