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Item Details
Title:
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RIVEN ROCK
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By: |
T. C Boyle |
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Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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£5.10 |
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£1.89 |
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ISBN 10: |
0747542929 |
ISBN 13: |
9780747542926 |
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Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 1999 |
Pages: |
480 |
Description: |
It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. |
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This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women's suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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