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Pasadena

A Novel

A Novel

By David Ebershoff

By David Ebershoff

By David Ebershoff

By David Ebershoff

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Jul 08, 2003 | ISBN 9780812968484

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Feb 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307434531

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    About Pasadena

    From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda’s father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda’s adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.

    About Pasadena

    From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda’s father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda’s adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.

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    About David Ebershoff

    David Ebershoff is the author of the novels The 19th Wife, Pasadena, and The Danish Girl, and a short-story collection, The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ferro-Grumley… More about David Ebershoff

    About David Ebershoff

    David Ebershoff is the author of the novels The 19th Wife, Pasadena, and The Danish Girl, and a short-story collection, The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ferro-Grumley… More about David Ebershoff

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Jul 08, 2003 | 528 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812968484

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Random House
    Feb 17, 2010 | 520 Pages | ISBN 9780307434531

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    Praise

    “Wuthering Heights meets East of Eden.”
    —The Wall Street Journal

    “Pasadena is like a grand opera. . . . [David] Ebershoff must be applauded for the grandness of his design, for grand characters, For grand setting, and . . . for his grand vision of Pasadena as the center of ‘real history.’”
    —Los Angeles Times Book Review

    “Both a triumph of historical re-creation and a full-bodied romance . . . You feel that, if you were transported back to Pasadena in 1925, Ebershoff’s book would enable you to find your way around perfectly.”
    —Baltimore Sun

    “Ebershoff’s crafting of characters is so sharp, so perfect, that we ache for most of them. . . . [He] has us in thrall, and every word he writes counts."
    —Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    “Full of detail and unerring language . . . magically evokes the rich and varied landscape of Southern California.’”
    —The Boston Sunday Globe

    “A luxurious tragedy . . . gorgeous, full of romance and disaster . . . Pasadena is a novel to get lost in.”
    —The Christian Science Monitor

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