An edition of Sister Noon (2001)

Sister Noon

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An edition of Sister Noon (2001)

Sister Noon

"San Francisco in the Gilded Age: great fortunes are being made and family dynasties established as new money erases the often unsavory pasts and shady dealings of their founders. It is a city bursting at its seams - each day bringing new monuments to unbridled ego and ostentatious bad taste - a city ruled by a self-selected elite grounded in gentility and fueled by gossip and greed.".

"By dint of birth, Lizzie Hayes is part of this elite. But Lizzie, seemingly so docile, hides within her a passionate heart. All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. And that spark is Mary Ellen Pleasant.

With her appearance on Lizzie's doorstep, she brings not only mystery and a whiff of disrepute, but also the key that will unlock Lizzie's rebellious nature. "You can do anything you want," she tells Lizzie. "You don't have to be the same person your whole life.""--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Pages
321

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Sister Noon
Sister Noon
2002, Plume
in English
Cover of: Sister Noon
Sister Noon
2002, Plume
in English
Cover of: Sister Noon
Sister Noon
2001, G.P. Putnam's Sons
in English
Cover of: Sister Noon
Sister Noon: a novel
2001, Putnam
in English
Cover of: Sister noon
Sister noon
2001, Thorndike Press
in English

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Edition Notes

"A Marian Wood book"--T.p. verso.

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3556.O844 S57 2001, PS3556.O844S57 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
321 p. ;
Number of pages
321

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6788091M
Internet Archive
sisternoon0000fowl_p6v3
ISBN 10
0399147500
LCCN
00046025
OCLC/WorldCat
45207916
Library Thing
169864
Goodreads
1430950

Work Description

Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from this "fine writer" whose "language dazzles" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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