Compromise with Sin - Couverture souple

Englert, Leanna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1938749367 ISBN 13 : 9781938749360

Editeur : Enchanted Indie Press, 2017

Synopsis

She stops at nothing to maintain a veneer of Victorian respectability. But the consequences of infidelity prove far worse than mere exposure. After straying into the arms of Doc Foster and becoming pregnant, small-town civic leader Louise Morrissey faces ruin if anyone--especially her husband--finds out. When infection steals the eyesight of her newborn baby, Louise knows it is punishment for her sin. What she doesn't know is that the web of deceit she weaves to safeguard her marriage and reputation will eventually ensnare her husband and daughter with tragic consequences. Guilt-ridden and seeking redemption, Louise risks revelation of her secrets as she joins Helen Keller, who dares to "speak the unspeakable," in a grassroots movement to end the blinding scourge known as "babies' sore eyes." In a confessional moment, Louise signs in Helen's hand: "When you wrote 'they enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin,' you were writing about me." A fictional version of real events, the story pits Louise, Helen, and others against society's taboos as they champion what would become one of the greatest public health triumphs of the twentieth century. And the story is one of romantic love at its most complicated, tragic, and poignant.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Before this novel's subject matter grabbed her by the scruff of the neck, Leanna Englert had been a freelance writer in such varied fields as healthcare and manufacturing. Those writing muscles that were in the habit of producing sentences like, “During a PET scan, the patient’s head is positioned in a ring containing radiation-detecting crystals,” had to be retrained to write fiction. It took years before she was satisfied that Compromise With Sin became a novel she would want to read. Englert and her husband, Timothy, live in Austin, Texas, where both are volunteer narrators for the Texas Talking Book Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Enchanted Indie Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1938749367
• ISBN 13: 9781938749360
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 414
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