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The Gilded Hour
Author:
Donati, Sara
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Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PS3554.O
Print Run: 100000
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ISBN-13: 9780425271810
LCCN: 2015007901
Imprint: Berkley
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Pub Date: 09/01/2015
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $26.95
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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viii, 757 pages ; 21 cm
H 9.28",
W 6.26",
D 1.44",
2.225 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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TIPS Subjects:
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Historical Fiction
Medical Fiction
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FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian
FICTION / Sagas
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LC Subjects:
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Historical fiction
New York (State), History, 19th century, Fiction
Women physicians, Fiction
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Women physicians, Fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 06/01/2015 |
| Young surgeon Anna Savard and her cousin, a physician named Sophie, have overcome their tragic childhood to embrace success in 1883 New York City. While Anna struggles to lay her past to rest, help a child in need child, and let love back into her heart, Sophie helps a desperate mother, a choice which leads Sophie toward a dangerous man. 752pp., 100K, Auth res: Bellingham, WA |
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| Booklist | 08/01/2015 |
| Donati became an internationally best-selling author with her Wilderness series and now presents a novel about the descendants of her earlier characters. As she illuminates life in America in 1883, she tells a compelling tale that dramatizes aspects of race, ethnicity, class, family, societal roles, and gender while creating memorable characters and intense relationships set against the bustle of New York City, as the Brooklyn Bridge rises and Anthony Comstock crusades against what he considers vice and depravity. Cousins Anna and Sophie Savard, both raised by a Knickerbocker relative they call Aunt, are graduates of the Women's Medical School and hardworking physicians who defy social norms by caring for those who need them most. Sophie, who is mixed race, loves and is loved by the consumptive scion of one of Manhattan society's leading families. Anna meets a well-educated Italian American detective who helps her search for orphaned brothers, one an infant, who have gone missing after being separated from their sisters en route to a Manhattan orphanage. When Anna treats a woman who dies after being injured during a botched abortion, Comstock sets his sights on the cousins. This satisfying read, rich in interpersonal relationships of many kinds, is part romance, part mystery, and part serial-killer thriller. Herald, Diana Tixier. 752p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2015. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 07/15/2015 |
| Another meticulously researched period drama with dashes of mystery and romance from Donati, this time set in 1880s New York. Donati (The Endless Forest, 2010, etc.) introduces two women doctors living near Washington Square during the Gilded Age: Dr. Liliane "Anna" Savard (granddaughter of Nathaniel Bonner of the Wilderness series) and Dr. Sophie Elodie Savard (Nathaniel's great-granddaughter but about the same age as Anna). It's 1883, and the doctors live with their Aunt Quinlan and her widowed stepdaughter, Margaret. Much of the story centers on the women's work, and as the book opens, a young nun, Sister Mary Augustin, calls at their home for Sophie, who's delivering a baby. Anna goes in her place to issue health certificates to a group of orphans. She meets DS Jack Mezzanotte and Rosa, an orphan trying to keep her sister and two brothers together. Donati spins the tales of Anna and Jack, Sophie and her maternity patient, the doctors' childhood friend Cap Verhoeven, Rosa and her siblings, Sister Mary Augustin, and a plethora of friends and relatives into a story of more than 700 pages, all saturated with her signature historical detail. There's good bit of social history, covering everything from "rational dress" and careers for women to contraception and the Comstock Act, advances in sanitation and public health. There are two mysteries as well, involving a serial killer preying on women seeking abortions and the whereabouts of Rosa's brothers. Donati is skilled at giving depth to even the most minor characters, but she sometimes pursues tangents that are never fully explored. Despite the complexity, though, the novel never gets bogged down. Page-turning and atmospheric, Donati's novel leaves readers with plenty of questions, perhaps signaling a sequel to come. 752pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2015. |
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| Library Journal | 08/21/2015 |
| Popular historical novelist Donati (Into the Wilderness; Dawn on a Distant Shore) turns to 1883 New York City to tell the story of female surgeons Anna and Sophie Savard, descendants of her previous books' characters. The two women repeatedly battle ignorance while pursuing their medical work. They face particular difficulties in light of Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock's passionate crusade against all forms of birth control. Matters are further complicated by a possible killer targeting desperate pregnant women, a search for two missing orphans, and Anna's blossoming romance with dashing detective Jack Mezzanotte. Verdict The many fans of Donati's "Wilderness" saga will likely want to follow the Bonner family's ongoing story here. While Donati's protagonists are so relentlessly progressive in their views that they feel anachronistic at times, the author has clearly done her research, and the story lines involving Comstock and women's limited options in the era are particularly compelling. Romance fans should be pleased by the prominence of the romantic theme, though that prominence sometimes contributes to recurring pacing issues. Despite the novel's length, much is left unresolved by the end, making a sequel seem likely.-Mara Bandy, Champaign P.L., IL. 752p. LJ Xpress Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2015. |
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