Rose
Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942-
Rose / Martin Cruz Smith - New York : Random House , c1996 - 364 p. ; 24 cm
Rose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan, a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist, Jonathan Blair, is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for "stealing" from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London. Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises to send him back to Africa if he can find John Maypole, the curate who was engaged to his daughter, Charlotte Hannay, when he disappeared three months previously without explanation. Charlotte herself is an ill-tempered young woman who takes an instant dislike to Blair when he tries to investigate her fiancé's disappearance.
English
0-679-42661-2
Man-woman relationships---Fiction---England---Lancashire
Women coal miners---Fiction---England---Lancashire
Mining engineers---Fiction---England---Lancashire
Missing persons----Fiction
Lancashire (England)---History---Fiction
FIC SMI
Rose / Martin Cruz Smith - New York : Random House , c1996 - 364 p. ; 24 cm
Rose is a wonderfully rich and intricate novel set in nineteenth-century Wigan, a town located in the coal country of Lancashire. Its protagonist, Jonathan Blair, is a mining engineer who has been chased out of Africa for "stealing" from the missionaries' Bible Fund in order to pay off the porter of his expedition into the interior of the Gold Coast; he is now down and out in London. Blair's employer, Bishop Hannay, promises to send him back to Africa if he can find John Maypole, the curate who was engaged to his daughter, Charlotte Hannay, when he disappeared three months previously without explanation. Charlotte herself is an ill-tempered young woman who takes an instant dislike to Blair when he tries to investigate her fiancé's disappearance.
English
0-679-42661-2
Man-woman relationships---Fiction---England---Lancashire
Women coal miners---Fiction---England---Lancashire
Mining engineers---Fiction---England---Lancashire
Missing persons----Fiction
Lancashire (England)---History---Fiction
FIC SMI
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