ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1968
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Frank Yerby - A Woman Called Fancy
NEL, 1968
252 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Men offered everything they possessed to posess her -- but there was only one man she wanted. From him she asked only love. A Woman Called Fancy, is Frank Yerby first to have a female protagonist. Set in Augusta, Georgia, the novel covers the period from 1880 to 1894 and races the rise of the heroine, a beautiful South Carolina woman, from poverty to prominence among Augusta`s artisto-crats. Fancy fled an incestuous marriage arranged by a drunken father. She had little education and no money. But with the priceless gifts of courage, honor and high personal integrity, Fancy won out against all odds and wrenched from life a position of respect and security.... a life that was secure against everyone except her husband. Court Brantley, had already killed one man for her and Fancy knew that if he ever found out about Jed Hawkins he would do so again.

Vintage fiction by the prolific Georgia author in which Fancy arrived in August, Georgia, on a spring day in 1880, she was 19 years old. She had fled from her native Carolina Hills because her father, to pay his drinking debts, wanted her to marry a 65-year-old mountaineer. She left behind a life of poverty and grinding toil for look for a better life. In Augusta her life took its turn for what was at once the better and the worse, for it was here that she met Courtland Brantley. Son of a great family fallen upon evil days, Court lived only to rebuild the family fortunes, the power and influence that the Brantleys had formerly known. Together, they work to achieve these goals, and this is their story...


Fiction, Historical