The Touch - Couverture souple

McCullough, Colleen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712680519 ISBN 13 : 9780712680516

Editeur : Century, 2003

Synopsis

Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, THE TOUCH tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In the process he meets the woman he loves but can never marry -- and marries a woman who can never love him. When Alexander Kinross writes home to Scotland for a bride, he is remembered only as a shiftless young boilermaker's apprentice. Since he encloses a draft for one thousand pounds, however, arrangements are swiftly made to send him his young cousin Elizabeth, although it is her sister Jean whom he had wanted. So Elizabeth makes her way across the Atlantic by steam ship, and from there by sail, towards a land she knows nothing about, and a husband about whom she knows still less. Arriving in Sydney, she meets Alexander - handsome, devilish in appearance and manner, and obviously rich, and determined to get richer. He marries her, takes her home across the wild and barren countryside to his great house. What he does not tell her is that he made his first fortune in the California gold rush - and fell in love with perhaps the o

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Colleen McCullough is the bestselling author of the record-breaking international bestseller The Thorn Birds as well as twelve other novels. She lives on Norfolk Island in the Pacific with her husband.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Century
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712680519
• ISBN 13: 9780712680516
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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• Personne responsable: non disponible