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001 2009290491
003 DLC
005 20090507135356.0
008 090204s2008 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2009290491
020 $a9780345485557 (pbk.)
020 $a0345485556 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $af-ua---$aaw-----
050 00 $aPS3568.U76678$bD74 2008b
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aRussell, Mary Doria,$d1950-
245 10 $aDreamers of the day :$ba novel /$cMary Doria Russell.
250 $aBallantine Books trade pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBallantine Books,$cc2008.
300 $a270 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aIncludes "A Reader's Guide" (p. [255]-270).
520 $aA forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes 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, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. While neither a pawn or a participant at the conference, she is drawn into the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the conference.
650 0 $aWomen teachers$vFiction.
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