New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 6.5"X9.5"X1.5"; 399 pgs. First printing. Deckled edges. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Golden yellow flypaper with black lace design. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Secure ship w/track #. "Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep."-Goodreads.

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Daughter of Fortune (original Spanish title Hija de la fortuna) is a novel by Isabel Allende, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in February 2000. Isabel Allende says "of her female protagonist in Daughter of Fortune, Eliza, that she might well represent who the author might have been in another life. " "Allende spent seven years of research on this, her fifth novel, which she says is a story of a young woman's search for self-knowledge.

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Seller: Blacks Bookshop (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 12336
Title: Daughter of Fortune
Author: Allende, Isabel
Format/Binding: Hardcover_cloth
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine-Collectible
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 006019491X
ISBN 13: 9780060194918
Publisher: HarperCollins
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1999

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