Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age
- ISBN-10
- 0312863330
- ISBN-13
- 9780312863333
- Series
- Second Lives
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Forge
- Author
- Richard S. Wheeler
Description
Set against the backdrop of 1880s Denver, a colorful novel relates the experiences of Homer Peabody, a hapless bachelor lawyer; Cornelia Kimbrough, who is trapped in a miserable marriage to a tycoon; Dixie Ball, a farm girl who strikes it rich, and Yves Poulenc, a young poet.
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- 2023
- 331 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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