Rose
by Martin Cruz Smith
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The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. When he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her unnatural, scandalous, erotic. As Rose and Blair circle one another, first warily, then with the heat of mutual desire, Blair loses his balance. And the lull induced by Rose's sensual touch leaves him unprepared for the bizarre, soul-scorching truth.
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History, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Women coal miners, Americans, Historical fiction, Missing persons, Mining engineers, Coal mines and mining, Love stories, Historical - General, Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction / Thrillers, General, Fiction - Historical, Jonathon Blair (Fictitious character), Suspense fiction, Russian language, English fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Missing persons, fiction, England, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, historical, general, Blair, jonathon (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, romance, historical, generalPlaces
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1996, Published by Random House Large Print in association with Random House
in English
067975878X 9780679758785
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