Under the wide and starry sky : a novel
Horan, Nancy2014
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At the age of 35, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and nanny in tow. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her brood repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate. There she meets Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who is instantly smitten with the earthy, independent, and opinionated belle Americaine. A woman ahead of her time, Fanny does not immediately take to the young lawyer who longs to devote his life to literature rather than the law. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson's charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair - marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness that spans decades as they travel the world for the sake of his health following their art and dreams eventually settling in Samoa.
Main title:
Under the wide and starry sky : a novel / Nancy Horan.
Author:
Horan, Nancy, author
Imprint:
London : Two Roads, 2014.London : Two Roads, 2014.
Collation:
472 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781444778410 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTIONGEN
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1235169