The Glass Ocean |
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| Author:
| Baker, Lori |
| Narrated by:
| Gould, Cat |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4829-3304-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Pre-recorded MP3 player |
| List Price: | USD $44.99 |
Book Description:
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In this story of becoming, flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents-solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard, who met on an expedition aboard the Narcissus in 1841-and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master artisan's patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist...
More DescriptionIn this story of becoming, flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents-solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard, who met on an expedition aboard the Narcissus in 1841-and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master artisan's patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist Lori Baker has created a gemlike Victorian world, a place where mistakes of the past reappear in the future, art can destroy, and family is not to be trusted.