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San Miguel

The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face...

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Main Author: Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, 2012.
Edition: [Library ed.], unabridged
Subjects:
Lester family > Fiction.
Waters family > Fiction.
Sheep ranches > Fiction.
San Miguel Island (Calif.) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > California.
Historical fiction > California.
Summary: The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
Physical Description: 14 sound discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781470302054
1470302055
Author Notes: T. C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle in Peekskill, New York on December 2, 1948. He received a B.A. in English and history from SUNY Potsdam in 1968, a MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and a Ph.D. degree in nineteenth century British literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. He has been a member of the English department at the University of Southern California since 1978.

He has written over 20 books including After the Plague, Drop City, The Inner Circle, Tooth and Claw, The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women, Wild Child, and When the Killing's Done. He has received numerous awards including the PEN/Faulkner Award for best novel of the year for World's End; the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story for T. C. Boyle Stories; and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France for The Tortilla Curtain. His title's Sam Miguel and The Harder They Caome made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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