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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A politician's wife retreats with her grown daughters to a Connecticut beach house after a painful public betrayal, an escape marked by new beginnings and her younger daughter's pregnancy.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the 1890s scandal in which a young woman named Madeline Pollard sued congressman William Campbell Preston Breckenridge for breach of promise. Pollard won the suit, and the mystery of who helped her pay the extravagant legal expenses in order to bring Breckinridge down illuminates a shift in the sexual politics of the Victorian era"--