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082	1		_aFIC TRE _2
100	1		_aTremain, Rose
245	1	4	_aThe colour _c/ Rose Tremain
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, c2003
300			_a382 p. _c; 24 cm
520	3		_aA sweeping historical novel about love, ruin, and redemption in nineteenth-century New Zealand Rose Tremain's new novel is a saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush in New Zealand. Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England, along with Joseph's mother, Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of "the colour," rush to their destinies. Harriet decides to pursue her own journey toward an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens to her when she arrives at the gold diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, burning heat and icy flood, Harriet comes face-to-face with the true cost of desire.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aGold mines and mining _v- Fiction
650		4	_aImmigrants _v--Fiction
651		4	_aNew Zealand _x-Gold discoveries _v--Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
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