Martha McPhee - Free Library Land Online https://library.land/ ru Martha McPhee - Free Library Land Online DataLife Engine An Elegant Woman https://library.land/martha-mcphee/548650-an_elegant_woman.html https://library.land/martha-mcphee/548650-an_elegant_woman.html An Elegant Woman
A powerful, moving multigenerational saga from National Book Award finalist Martha McPhee that explores one family's story against the sweep of 20th-century American history.
On a winter day in 1910, at a train station in Ohio, two girls wait in the cold with their mother to begin a new life in the West. Tommy, the eldest, feels responsible for her sister, and in the years to come, as their mother campaigns for women's suffrage and teaches in one-room schoolhouses across Montana, she takes care of Katherine: trapping animals, begging, keeping house, cooking, while her sister goes to school. But as soon as Katherine graduates, Tommy makes a decision that will change the course of both of their lives—separating the two sisters forever, sending one to California and the other to New York.

A profound meditation on memory, history, and legacy, ten years in the writing, An Elegant Woman follows one woman over the course of the 20th century, taking the...]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:35:51 +0300 Dear Money https://library.land/martha-mcphee/364948-dear_money.html https://library.land/martha-mcphee/364948-dear_money.html Dear Money
A Pygmalion story about a novelist who is transformed into a bond trader of mortgage-backed securities by a Wall Street tycoon in the heady days of the gilded age.]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:23:41 +0200 Bright Angel Time https://library.land/martha-mcphee/364949-bright_angel_time.html https://library.land/martha-mcphee/364949-bright_angel_time.html Bright Angel Time
The story of an eight-year-old’s journey towards adulthood on the roads of the American West with her family, her mother’s darkly charismatic new lover, and assorted hangers-on.]]> Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:23:54 +0200 L'America https://library.land/martha-mcphee/379802-lamerica.html https://library.land/martha-mcphee/379802-lamerica.html L'America
In the brilliant Greek sunshine of a small Aegean island, Beth and Cesare meet—beginning a transformative love affair that spans two continents, two decades, and two lifetimes. Cesare is a privileged Italian boy, raised in a prosperous town where his family has lived for five hundred years; Beth, an ambitious American dreamer born to hippies and raised on a commune. The events of September 11 serve as a catalyst for the unfolding of their story, in which passion struggles against the inexorable force of patria.The novel of the American in Europe has a long and lustrous pedigree. L’America adds to this lineage, an evocative portrait of the intersection between Europe and America, the old and the new, and the dizzying, life-changing power of first love.
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