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020 $a9781400064717 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS3568.U76678$bD74 2008
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aRussell, Mary Doria,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96014131
245 10 $aDreamers of the day :$ba novel /$cMary Doria Russell.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $a253 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a""I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine."" "So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russell's compelling new novel, Dreamers of the Day. And what is Miss Shanklin's "little story"? Nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab world - and of our own." "A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie, enters into the company of the historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days at a hotel in Cairo, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan." "Neither a pawn nor a participant at the conference, Agnes is ostensibly insignificant, and that makes her a welcome sounding board for Churchill, Lawrence, and Bell. It also makes her unexpectedly attractive to the charismatic German spy Karl Weilbacher. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and toward a personal awakening."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWomen teachers$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113474
600 10 $aLawrence, T. E.$q(Thomas Edward),$d1888-1935$vFiction.
600 10 $aChurchill, Winston,$d1874-1965$vFiction.
600 10 $aBell, Gertrude Lowthian,$d1868-1926$vFiction.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xHistory$y1914-1923$vFiction.
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0826/2007024665-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0826/2007024665-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0826/2007024665-s.html
852 00 $bbar$hPS3568.U76678$iD74 2008
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3568.U76678$iD74 2008