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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
January 1, 2002
Pages
351
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375502255
ISBN-10
0375502254
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.40 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$24.95
§As reported by publisher
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Where My Heart Used to Beat | Birdsong | Charlotte Gray | A Week in December | The Girl at the Lion D'or | Engleby | Human Traces | A Possible Life
Where My Heart Used to Beat | Birdsong | Charlotte Gray | A Week in December | The Girl at the Lion D'or | Engleby | Human Traces | A Possible Life
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In 1960, Mary van der Linden, a loyal daughter, wife, and mother approaching forty, moves with her family from London to Washington, D.C., where she escapes her narrow world for the larger issues of politics and the Cold War with the help of Frank, a New York journalist, who introduces her to Miles Davis, Greenwich Village, and adultery. 50,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Focusing on a richly significant time in our recent past, Sebastian Faulks, the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has written his first novel set in America. The year is 1960âa fascinating moment of transition in our country, when the comfortable Eisenhower years were drawing to a close and the ruthlessly competitive Nixon/Kennedy presidential campaign signaled the beginning of a starkly different decade.
Mary van der Linden has recently moved from London to Washington, D.C., with her two children and her loving, admired husband, Charlie, who is posted to the British Embassy. Nearly forty, Mary has spent a lifetime as a loyal daughter, wife and mother. But in this year of so much change, she feels compelled to break away from her familiar world and is drawn to the freedom of New York City, which is effervescent with parties, jazz, three- martini lunches, girls in their summer dresses and men in their Sinatra hats and big ties. Greenwich Village is still charmingly bohemian, and Miles Davisâs hit tune âOn Green Dolphin Streetâ is playing everywhere. Mary finds a hotel room in New York and then finds a lover, while back in Washington her husband drinks to forget the demands of his job, the absence of his wife and the Cold War paranoia that has overtaken the capital.
Faulks breaks new ground with this novel: It is a love story, not a war story, and it is set in America rather than France. Yet readers of his two previous bestselling novels will recognize the close focus of the historical setting, the unforgettable characters and the gathering emotional power of the narrative. On Green Dolphin Street is a dramatic, tremendously moving novel that is certain to extend the American audience for this prodigiously talented authorâs work.
Mary van der Linden has recently moved from London to Washington, D.C., with her two children and her loving, admired husband, Charlie, who is posted to the British Embassy. Nearly forty, Mary has spent a lifetime as a loyal daughter, wife and mother. But in this year of so much change, she feels compelled to break away from her familiar world and is drawn to the freedom of New York City, which is effervescent with parties, jazz, three- martini lunches, girls in their summer dresses and men in their Sinatra hats and big ties. Greenwich Village is still charmingly bohemian, and Miles Davisâs hit tune âOn Green Dolphin Streetâ is playing everywhere. Mary finds a hotel room in New York and then finds a lover, while back in Washington her husband drinks to forget the demands of his job, the absence of his wife and the Cold War paranoia that has overtaken the capital.
Faulks breaks new ground with this novel: It is a love story, not a war story, and it is set in America rather than France. Yet readers of his two previous bestselling novels will recognize the close focus of the historical setting, the unforgettable characters and the gathering emotional power of the narrative. On Green Dolphin Street is a dramatic, tremendously moving novel that is certain to extend the American audience for this prodigiously talented authorâs work.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Random House Inc (January 1, 2002)
9780375502255 | details & prices | 351 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $24.95
About: In 1960, Mary van der Linden, a loyal wife and mother approaching forty, moves with her family from London to Washington, D.
About: In 1960, Mary van der Linden, a loyal wife and mother approaching forty, moves with her family from London to Washington, D.
CD/Spoken Word
from Gardners Books (December 5, 2002)
9781856867856 | details & prices | 1 pages | List price $26.35
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Steven Crossley (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Clipper Audio (March 1, 2003)
9781841973364 | details & prices | List price $84.00
About: A work of passion and breadth, set in Cold War America, from the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.
About: A work of passion and breadth, set in Cold War America, from the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.
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