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Enchanted Islands by Amend, Allison
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Enchanted Islands
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Biographical, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 23.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galapagos Islands at the brink of World War II. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1882 to immigrant parents, Frances Frankowski covets the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel, who has everything Fanny could wish for--money, parents who value education, and an effervescent and winning personality. When, at age fifteen, Rosalie decides they should run away to Chicago, Fanny jumps at the chance to escape her unexceptional life. But, within a year, Rosalie commits an unforgivable betrayal, inciting Frances to strike out on her own. Decades later, the women reconnect in San Francisco and realize how widely their lives have diverged. While Rosalie is a housewife and mother, Frances works as a secretary for the Office of Naval Intelligence. There she is introduced to Ainslie Conway, an intelligence operator ten years her junior. When it's arranged for Frances and Ainslie to marry and carry out a mission on the Galapagos Islands, the couple's identities--already hidden from each other--are further buried under their new cover stories. No longer a lonely spinster, Frances is about to begin the most fascinating and intrigue-filled years of her life. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor from their enemies and from each other may be their undoing. Drawing on the rich history of the early twentieth century and set against a large, colorful canvas, Enchanted Islands boldly examines the complexity of female friendship, the universal pursuit of a place to call home, and the reverberations of secrets we keep from others and from ourselves.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385539061
ISBN-13
9780385539067
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217104937
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enchanted Islands
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3601.M464e53 2016
Reviews
"In Enchanted Islands , Allison Amend distills the entire life of Frances Conway--one of, if not the , most fully realized characters I've encountered in the last decade--into a captivating narrative. It is a nostalgic and yet entirely unsentimental tale told with elegance and gravitas from a distance that is somehow both interior and objective. And, as the best novels do, it raises more questions than it answers. The greatest thing about the book is the entire, brilliant book." --Jill Alexander Essbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Hausfrau "Allison Amend is a wonderful writer--generous and psychologically astute--and Enchanted Islands is both a sweeping epic and a moving exploration of the intricacies of friendship. This is a beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time." --Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans "In this compulsively readable novel, exotic locales and international espionage bend before the greatest intrigue of all: the life of a captivating mind. Young Frances escapes a series of Dickensian snares, only to ensnare herself willingly in the complexities of adult relationships, in which nothing worthwhile is achieved without some risk. Revelations wait around every corner as a lifelong friendship weathers betrayals and a marriage's secrets yield a hauntingly textured love. Amend exerts exquisite control throughout, deftly weaving in real history and gracing her prose with flourishes that lend the work a symphonic feel. Enchanted Islands is as moving as it is impossible to put down." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselve s "Allison Amend's dazzling Enchanted Islands is steeped in the wondrous history of the Galápagos and bursting with the magic of pure invention. An elegant stylist and a masterful chronicler of the most hidden and luminous corners of the human experience, Amend is a spectacular talent, and this brilliant novel is the evidence." --Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me, "Inspired by the memoirs of Frances Conway, this is the dazzling fictionalized story of a woman's move from Minnesota to the Galápagos Islands just before WWII." --Travel + Leisure "In Enchanted Islands , Allison Amend distills the entire life of Frances Conway--one of, if not the , most fully realized characters I've encountered in the last decade--into a captivating narrative. It is a nostalgic and yet entirely unsentimental tale told with elegance and gravitas from a distance that is somehow both interior and objective. And, as the best novels do, it raises more questions than it answers. The greatest thing about the book is the entire, brilliant book." --Jill Alexander Essbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Hausfrau "Allison Amend is a wonderful writer--generous and psychologically astute--and Enchanted Islands is both a sweeping epic and a moving exploration of the intricacies of friendship. This is a beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time." --Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans "In this compulsively readable novel, exotic locales and international espionage bend before the greatest intrigue of all: the life of a captivating mind. Young Frances escapes a series of Dickensian snares, only to ensnare herself willingly in the complexities of adult relationships, in which nothing worthwhile is achieved without some risk. Revelations wait around every corner as a lifelong friendship weathers betrayals and a marriage's secrets yield a hauntingly textured love. Amend exerts exquisite control throughout, deftly weaving in real history and gracing her prose with flourishes that lend the work a symphonic feel. Enchanted Islands is as moving as it is impossible to put down." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselve s "Allison Amend's dazzling Enchanted Islands is steeped in the wondrous history of the Galápagos and bursting with the magic of pure invention. An elegant stylist and a masterful chronicler of the most hidden and luminous corners of the human experience, Amend is a spectacular talent, and this brilliant novel is the evidence." --Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me, "Inspired by the memoirs of Frances Conway, this is the dazzling fictionalized story of a woman's move from Minnesota to the Galápagos Islands just before WWII." -- Travel + Leisure "Secrets, lies, and spies on a faraway island. The real-life Frances and Ainslie Conway spent years before, during, and after World War II on the Galápagos Islands, recording their unusual adventure in two memoirs that have inspired Amend's pleasurable new novel ... appealing characters and vivid local color make for an entertaining read." -- Kirkus Reviews "In Enchanted Islands , Allison Amend distills the entire life of Frances Conway--one of, if not the , most fully realized characters I've encountered in the last decade--into a captivating narrative. It is a nostalgic and yet entirely unsentimental tale told with elegance and gravitas from a distance that is somehow both interior and objective. And, as the best novels do, it raises more questions than it answers. The greatest thing about the book is the entire, brilliant book." --Jill Alexander Essbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Hausfrau "Allison Amend is a wonderful writer--generous and psychologically astute--and Enchanted Islands is both a sweeping epic and a moving exploration of the intricacies of friendship. This is a beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time." --Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans "In this compulsively readable novel, exotic locales and international espionage bend before the greatest intrigue of all: the life of a captivating mind. Young Frances escapes a series of Dickensian snares, only to ensnare herself willingly in the complexities of adult relationships, in which nothing worthwhile is achieved without some risk. Revelations wait around every corner as a lifelong friendship weathers betrayals and a marriage's secrets yield a hauntingly textured love. Amend exerts exquisite control throughout, deftly weaving in real history and gracing her prose with flourishes that lend the work a symphonic feel. Enchanted Islands is as moving as it is impossible to put down." --Matthew Thomas, New York Times -bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselve s "Allison Amend's dazzling Enchanted Islands is steeped in the wondrous history of the Galápagos and bursting with the magic of pure invention. An elegant stylist and a masterful chronicler of the most hidden and luminous corners of the human experience, Amend is a spectacular talent, and this brilliant novel is the evidence." --Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me
Copyright Date
2016
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