02332nam a2200409Ia 4500 7825 BD-DhAAL 20151117111626.0 151117r20001996nyub j 000 1 eng d 034541232X 034542252X (pbk.) : $7.99 ($10.99 Can.) 9780345422521 (pbk.) NLGGC 15694894X (OCoLC)43436852 CO2 CO2 OCL UVU XY4 OCLCQ BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG MYG BD-DhAAL PS3569.M5377.R67 2000 813/.54 20 Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 16178 Rose / Martin Cruz Smith. 1st Ballantine books domestic ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2000, c1996. 400 p. : maps ; 18 cm. "This edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc." 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. 7825 Man-woman relationships England Lancashire Fiction. 16268 Women coal miners England Lancashire Fiction. 16269 Mining engineers England Lancashire Fiction. 16270 Missing persons England Lancashire Fiction. 16271 Lancashire (England) History Fiction. 16272 Historical fiction. gsafd 5668 Love stories. gsafd 16273 HUM STACK PS3569.M5377.R67 2000 MIT01 PS3569.M5377.R67 2000 20090108 ddc BK 36183 36183 0 0 ddc 0 813_000000000000000__54_SMI 0 56898 SCL SCL GEN 2015-11-17 Gift: 4 16 813.54 SMI 3020007825 2018-08-01 2018-05-22 1 2015-11-17 BK