The Rose Grower, by Michelle de Kretser (used) under-100

The Rose Grower, by Michelle de Kretser (used) under-100Decent condition; used. About: The 1789 storming of the Bastille has brought France to the brink of revolution. Yet in the serene heart of the French province of Gascony, little has changed in a hundred years and the events in Paris seem but a distant thunder. Indeed, the dramatic crash landing of American artist and amateur balloonist Stephen Fletcher sparks far more excitement. Stephen lands in the pastoral world of a magistrate and his three

Delicate but readable edition

Below deck

He has brought personality into literature

Once a victim herself

Since the day she was scouted by a modeling agent while shopping at a London street fair when she was just nineteen

this impressive tome is guaranteed to be the Jeeves to your Wooster

'Certainly his best book since What is the What

this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life

He was considered by T

Postcards and a booklet with sepia-toned pictures of synagoges

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