605525
9780060194918
"[A]n extravagant tale by a gifted storyteller whose spell brings to life the 19th century world....DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE, while entertaining and well paced, is frustratingly one-dimensional....Though Allende offers pictures of this darker world, they come across as mere snapshots, dwarfed by the sweeping historical panorama she's trying to paint....Allende, Isabel is the author of 'Daughter of Fortune', published 1999 under ISBN 9780060194918 and ISBN 006019491X.
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