THE PEPPERED MOTH
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THE PEPPERED MOTH

Código de artículo:
E2000169867
Editorial:
MARINER BOOKS / OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA
ISBN:
9780544002968
Formato:
Vitalsource
Tipo de libro:
Ebook
DRM
Si

The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an ?absorbing? portrait of three generations of women?inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review).   In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town in South Yorkshire, England. Unusually gifted, she longs to escape a life burdened by unquestioned tradition. She studies patiently, dreaming of the day when she will take the entrance exam for Cambridge and leave her narrow world. A generation later, Bessie?s daughter Chrissie feels a similar impulse to expand her horizons, which she in turn passes on to her own daughter.   Nearly a century after that, Bessie?s granddaughter finds herself listening to a lecture on genetics and biological determinism. She has returned to Breaseborough and wonders at the families who remained in the humble little town where Bessie grew up. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the plain South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself?not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden and unexplained resurgence.   With The Peppered Moth, the acclaimed author of The Seven Sisters conjures a captivating work of semi-fiction, grappling with her memory of her own mother and the indelible mark of family and heredity.

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