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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Transworld Pub
Publication date
March 10, 2008
Pages
272
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385614542
ISBN-10
0385614543
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$23.25
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You wonât really understand your times until you understand mine.â
So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russellâs compelling new novel, Dreamers of the Day. And what is Miss Shanklinâs âlittle story?â Nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab worldâand of our own.
A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinionsâand a small, noisy dachshund named Rosieâenters into the company of the historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days at a hotel in Cairo, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
Neither a pawn nor a participant at the conference, Agnes is ostensibly insignificant, and that makes her a welcome sounding board for Churchill, Lawrence, and Bell. It also makes her unexpectedly attractive to the charismatic German spy Karl Weilbacher. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and toward a personal awakening.
With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates todayâs headlines. As enlightening as it is entertaining, Dreamers of the Day is a memorable, passionate, gorgeously written novel.
From the Hardcover edition.
So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russellâs compelling new novel, Dreamers of the Day. And what is Miss Shanklinâs âlittle story?â Nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab worldâand of our own.
A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinionsâand a small, noisy dachshund named Rosieâenters into the company of the historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days at a hotel in Cairo, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
Neither a pawn nor a participant at the conference, Agnes is ostensibly insignificant, and that makes her a welcome sounding board for Churchill, Lawrence, and Bell. It also makes her unexpectedly attractive to the charismatic German spy Karl Weilbacher. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and toward a personal awakening.
With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates todayâs headlines. As enlightening as it is entertaining, Dreamers of the Day is a memorable, passionate, gorgeously written novel.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (June 4, 2008)
9781410407092 | details & prices | 485 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.34 lbs | List price $31.95
About: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me.
About: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (December 16, 2008)
9780345485557 | details & prices | 270 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $16.00
The price comparison is for this edition
from Transworld Pub (March 10, 2008)
9780385614542 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $23.25
About: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me.
About: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me.
CD/Spoken Word
With Ann Marie Lee (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Random House (March 4, 2008)
9780739358399 | details & prices | 4.75 × 5.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.18 lbs | List price $29.95
About: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me.
About: âI suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me.
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