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Vera : a novel / Carol Edgarian.
Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor's daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781797118987
- ISBN: 1797118986
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2021]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Katie Mazur. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Novels. Audiobooks. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Morgan Co PL - Brooklyn Branch | CD FIC EDG 9563 (Text) | 78551000653563 | Audio CD | Available | - |
| Putnam County Public Library - Main | Audio FIC EDG CD (Text) | 30041002372017 | Adult Audiobook | Available | - |
| Spencer Co PL - Rockport Main Library | FIC EDG CD (Text) | 70741000163872 | AUDIOBOOKS | Available | - |
| Syracuse Turkey Creek Twp PL - Syracuse | CD EDG (Text) | 50577011216054 | Adult AudioBooks | Available | - |
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New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers an astonishing feat of imagination, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco'a city leveled by quake and fire'featuring an indomitable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe and her quest for love and reinvention.
Meet Vera Johnson, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary bordello and ally to the city's corrupt politicians. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds'the madam's alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the violent, debt ridden domestic life of the family paid to raise her.
On the morning of the great quake, Vera's worlds collide. As the shattered city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned, and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Vera disregards societal norms and prejudices and begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan, her former rival, and forges an unlikely family of survivors. Together they navigate their way beyond disaster.
In Vera, Carol Edgarian creates a cinematic, deeply entertaining world, in which honor and fates are tested; notions of sex, class, and justice are turned upside down; and love is hard-won. A ravishing, heartbreaking, and profound affirmation of youth and tenacity, Vera's story brings to life legendary characters'tenor Enrico Caruso, indicted mayor Eugene Schmitz and boss Abe Ruef, tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels'as well as an unforgettable cast that includes Vera's young lover, Bobby, protector of the city's tribe of orphans, and three generations of a Chinese family competing and conspiring with Vera.
This richly imagined, timely tale of improbable outcomes and alliances takes hold from the first page, gifting readers with remarkable scenes of devastation, renewal, and joy. Told with unflinching candor and wit, Vera celebrates the audacious fortitude of its young heroine and marks a stunning achievement by an inventive and generous writer.
