- Fiction, History, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general
"Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay, Martha Peake envelops the reader in a world on the brink of revolution, and introduces us to a flame-haired heroine who will live in the imagination long after the last page is turned.".
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and resolved.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- McGrath, Patrick
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 353
- Publisher
- Random House, Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670891283
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