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Letters from an Age of Reason: A Novel (Abridged)
Letters from an Age of Reason: A Novel (Abridged)
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Cultural and familial fireworks flare when the headstrong teenage daughter of a wealthy New Yorker falls passionately in love with a young man from New Orleans, and from a very different background indeed.
What makes this story sizzle and soar are its time and place¿the United States during the Civil War and Victorian England¿and a couple of key facts about the protagonists. Miss Arabella Leeds is presumably destined to be a proper young gentlewoman, a model WASP before the term was coined. Aubrey Paxton, on the other hand, is the pampered "high yellow" house servant of a wealthy slaveholder.
In the capable hands and fanciful imagination of their creator, these improbable lovers defy convention in a setting where convention¿or, at least, its semblance¿is all.
A romantic adventure rich in historical detail and filled with vivacity and humor, Letters from an Age of Reason is a beautifully crafted tour-de-force of exceptional depth, passion, and power that introduces an extraordinary new writer.
What makes this story sizzle and soar are its time and place¿the United States during the Civil War and Victorian England¿and a couple of key facts about the protagonists. Miss Arabella Leeds is presumably destined to be a proper young gentlewoman, a model WASP before the term was coined. Aubrey Paxton, on the other hand, is the pampered "high yellow" house servant of a wealthy slaveholder.
In the capable hands and fanciful imagination of their creator, these improbable lovers defy convention in a setting where convention¿or, at least, its semblance¿is all.
A romantic adventure rich in historical detail and filled with vivacity and humor, Letters from an Age of Reason is a beautifully crafted tour-de-force of exceptional depth, passion, and power that introduces an extraordinary new writer.
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