In a True Light / Rough Treatment(Slightly used)

TRAVELLING IN EUROPE WITH HER FAMILY, DAISY MILLER, AN EXQUISITELY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN, PRESENTS HER FELLOW-COUNTRYMAN WINTERBOURNE WITH A DILEMMA HE CANNOT RESOLVE. IS SHE DELIBERATELY FLOUTING SOCIAL CONVENTION IN THE OUTSPOKEN WAY SHE TALKS AND ACTS, OR IS SHE SIMPLY IGNORANT OF THOSE CONVENTIONS? WHEN SHE STRIKES UP AN INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP WITH AN URBANE YOUNG ITALIAN, HER FLAT REFUSAL TO OBSERVE THE CODES OF RESPECTABLE BEHAVIOUR LEAVE HER PERILOUSLY EXPOSED. IN DAISY MILLER JAMES CREATED HIS FIRST GREAT PORTRAIT OF THE ENIGMATIC AND DANGEROUSLY INDEPENDENT AMERICAN WOMAN, A FIGURE WHO WOULD COME TO DOMINATE HIS LATER MASTERPIECES.

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser’s burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count’s beautiful and enigmatic mistress.

Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa , to gather information from von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.

This powerful new novel by the bestselling author ofBlack and Blue,One True Thing,Object Lessons, andA Short Guide to a Happy Lifebegins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away, and in this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. Richly written, deeply moving, beautifully crafted, Blessings tells the story of Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the estate, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of people in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community-these are at the center of this wonderful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the writer about whomThe Washington Post Book Worldsaid, “Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.”