The Knowledge of Water - Hardcover

Smith, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345391357 ISBN 13: 9780345391353

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1996

Synopsis

During the devastating floods of 1910, Perdita Halley, a young woman studying music in Paris, finds herself falling passionately in love with Baron Alexander von Reisden, and together they flee a madman with dual personalities and confront the theft of the Mona Lisa.

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About the Author:

Sarah Smith has lived in Japan, London, and Paris. A Harvard Ph.D., she has taught film and eighteenth-century literature, and she now writes and designs documentation for advanced computer products. She is also the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Vanished Child and A Citizen of the Country, her newest novel. Ms. Smith lives near Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband and children, and their twenty-two-pound Maine coon cat.
From the Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap:

ng," said The New York Times Book Review of Sarah Smith's historical mystery, The Vanished Child, "Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horror." Now with The Knowledge of Water, Sarah Smith delves even more deeply into the realm of deception, forgery, and menace that she has made so uniquely her own. Set in Paris during the devastating flood of 1910, and redolent of the colorful bohemian atmosphere of the time, The Knowledge of Water is a lush, complex, beautifully written novel about the consuming pleasures of passion and the obsessive perils of art.
Three years ago, the enigmatic Alexander von Reisden proposed to the young and very lovely Perdita Halley on a train between Boston and New York. Though initially accepting, Perdita later declined, fearing that marriage would compromise her dream of becoming a concert pianist. Now Perdita has come to study at the famous Conservatoire in Paris, the endlessly romantic city wh

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345391357
• ISBN 13: 9780345391353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 469