Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 006019491X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060194918
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valpara so, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqu n Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaqu n takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.
As Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en. What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.
Synopsis
Daughter of Fortune (original Spanish title Hija de la fortuna) is a novel by Isabel Allende, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in February 2000. Isabel Allende says "of her female protagonist in Daughter of Fortune, Eliza, that she might well represent who the author might have been in another life. " "Allende spent seven years of research on this, her fifth novel, which she says is a story of a young woman's search for self-knowledge.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ1908831
- Title
- Daughter of Fortune
- Author
- Isabel Allende
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 006019491X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060194918
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 6, 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;