Search preferences

Product Type

  • All Product Types
  • Books (1)
  • Magazines & Periodicals
  • Comics
  • Sheet Music
  • Art, Prints & Posters
  • Photographs
  • Maps
  • Manuscripts &
    Paper Collectibles

Condition

Binding

Collectible Attributes

  • First Edition
  • Signed
  • Dust Jacket
  • Seller-Supplied Images
  • Not Printed On Demand

Seller Location

Seller Rating

  • Russell Banks

    Published by 55652, 2008

    ISBN 10: 0747593671ISBN 13: 9780747593676

    Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand

    Seller Rating: 3-star rating, Learn more about seller ratings

    Contact seller

    Book

    Quantity: 1

    Add to Basket

    Hardback. 4-Aug. It is July, 1936, and it is the height of the Depression, and the looming threat of Fascism is spreading across Europe. And somewhere high above the Adirondack mountains, beautiful and doomed, floats the vast Hindenburg airship. Vanessa Cole is the stunning debutante daughter of the famous brain surgeon Carter Cole. Notorious for her scandalous affairs with the rich and famous, she has returned to her parents' home in upstate New York after the collapse of her second marriage. Rumours are rife as the family gathers to celebrate the 4th of July at the rustic but elegant Adirondack Camp deep in their privately-owned wilderness, The Reserve.This scene of luxury and privilege is disturbed by the arrival of the internationally famous painter and political radical, Jordan Groves, who brazenly lands his bi-plane on the pristine Second Lake. Groves, celebrated as much for his leftist politics, Hemingwayesque exploits and romantic conquests as for his art, is easy prey for Vanessa Cole's blend of electrifying charm and destructiveness. But in order to protect his two young sons and his marriage, already made fragile by his years of compulsive infidelity, he must try to keep his distance.