The 19th Wife

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2009* Publisher: Black Swan (Transworld).* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a partial shot of a young lady with a knife. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. No colouration to page margins or edges. FINE* Illustrations: One b/w reproduction of the front page of the 1875 memoir & one line drawing at page 261.* Pages: 598 pp. text. x pp. authors' notes blank pages and advertisement at rear with colour photo of the author to inside rear cover.* Product Description:- Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime. Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were drawn into plural marriage, and how she herself battled for her freedom and escaped her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives: a page turning literary mystery and an enthralling epic of love and faith.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL, with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*