Pasadena

From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda's father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.From the Trade Paperback edition.

First sentence: ON A DECEMBER MORNING in 1944, Mr. Andrew Jackson Blackwood-a young-faced, self-made man who had been in California twelve or fourteen years, depending on whom you asked-was making his way down El Camino Real.

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Random House

Editions

6

Pages

512

ISBN

9780375504563

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