Finding Emilie - Paperback

Name: Finding Emilie - Paperback
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SKU: 9781439197660
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by Laurel Corona

$26.99

Book Overview

Woman is born free, and everywhere she is in corsets. . . .

Lili du Châtelet yearns to know more about her mother, the brilliant French mathematician Emilie. But the shrouded details of Emilie's unconventional life--and her sudden death--are elusive. Caught between the confines of a convent upbringing and the intrigues of the Versailles court, Lili blossoms under the care of a Parisian salonnière as she absorbs the excitement of the Enlightenment, even as the scandalous shadow of her mother's past haunts her and puts her on her own path of self-discovery.

Laurel Corona's breathtaking new novel, set on the eve of the French Revolution, vividly illuminates the tensions of the times, and the dangerous dance between the need to conform and the desire to chart one's own destiny and journey of the heart.

ISBN	9781439197660
Author	Laurel Corona
Publisher	Gallery Books
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2011
Language	ENG- English
Pages	448
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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About Laurel Corona

Laurel Corona is the author of twenty plus grade-school books and a professor of English at San Diego City College. She was a Charter Fellow at the San Diego Area Writing Project. She has a BA from University of California and an MA from University of Chicago and received her PhD from University of California. She currently lives in San Diego, CA.

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