The Resource The secret life of Violet Grant : a novel, Beatriz Williams
The secret life of Violet Grant : a novel, Beatriz Williams
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- Summary
- "Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family's past, and the hushed-over crime passionnel of an aunt she never knew, whose existence has been wiped from the record of history. Berlin, 1914. Violet Schuyler Grant endures her marriage to the philandering and decades-older scientist Dr. Walter Grant for one reason: for all his faults, he provides the necessary support to her liminal position as a young American female physicist in prewar Germany. The arrival of Dr. Grant's magnetic former student at the beginning of Europe's fateful summer interrupts this delicate detente. Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges Violet to escape her husband's perverse hold, and as the world edges into war and Lionel's shocking true motives become evident, Violet is tempted to take the ultimate step to set herself free and seek a life of her own conviction with a man whose cause is as audacious as her own. As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her aunt's past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, Violet's story of determination and desire unfolds, shedding light on the darkness of her years abroad and teaching Vivian to reach forward with grace for the ambitious future--and the love--she wants most"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 513 pages
- Note
- includes excerpt from Truelove
- Isbn
- 9780425274842
- Label
- The secret life of Violet Grant : a novel
- Title
- The secret life of Violet Grant
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Beatriz Williams
- Subject
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- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueAunts
- Nieces
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueFamily secrets
- trueAmbition in women
- trueFashion periodicals
- Family secrets
- trueMarital conflict
- trueIndependence in women
- trueGermany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- FICTION / Romance / Historical
- true1910s -- 1910 -- 1919
- trueWomen's role
- trueWorld War I
- Romantic suspense fiction
- Aunts
- trueParallel narratives
- trueRomantic suspense
- Nieces -- Fiction
- trueAunt and niece
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Fiction
- Aunts -- Fiction
- trueWomen physicists
- FICTION / Romance / General
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1914 - 1918
- trueHistorical fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family's past, and the hushed-over crime passionnel of an aunt she never knew, whose existence has been wiped from the record of history. Berlin, 1914. Violet Schuyler Grant endures her marriage to the philandering and decades-older scientist Dr. Walter Grant for one reason: for all his faults, he provides the necessary support to her liminal position as a young American female physicist in prewar Germany. The arrival of Dr. Grant's magnetic former student at the beginning of Europe's fateful summer interrupts this delicate detente. Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges Violet to escape her husband's perverse hold, and as the world edges into war and Lionel's shocking true motives become evident, Violet is tempted to take the ultimate step to set herself free and seek a life of her own conviction with a man whose cause is as audacious as her own. As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her aunt's past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, Violet's story of determination and desire unfolds, shedding light on the darkness of her years abroad and teaching Vivian to reach forward with grace for the ambitious future--and the love--she wants most"--
- Summary
- Defying the privilege of her 1960s Fifth Avenue family to pursue a job with a style magazine, recent college graduate Vivian Schuyler discovers a secret about an aunt she never knew who at the dawn of World War I fled her oppressive marriage to pursue an audacious goal
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
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- 10304593
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Beatriz
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nieces
- Aunts
- Family secrets
- World War, 1914-1918
- FICTION / Romance / Historical
- FICTION / Romance / General
- FICTION / Historical
- World War (1914-1918)
- Aunts
- Family secrets
- Nieces
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The secret life of Violet Grant : a novel, Beatriz Williams
- Note
- includes excerpt from Truelove
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn861068905
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 513 pages
- Isbn
- 9780425274842
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013043630
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861068905
- Label
- The secret life of Violet Grant : a novel, Beatriz Williams
- Note
- includes excerpt from Truelove
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn861068905
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 513 pages
- Isbn
- 9780425274842
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013043630
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861068905
Subject
- true1910s -- 1910 -- 1919
- 1914 - 1918
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueAmbition in women
- trueAunt and niece
- trueAunts
- Aunts
- Aunts -- Fiction
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Romance / General
- FICTION / Romance / Historical
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueFashion periodicals
- Fiction
- trueGermany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueIndependence in women
- trueMarital conflict
- trueNew York City -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Nieces
- Nieces -- Fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- trueRomantic suspense
- Romantic suspense fiction
- trueWomen physicists
- trueWomen's role
- World War (1914-1918)
- trueWorld War I
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Genre
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- trueRomantic suspense
- Romantic suspense fiction
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