Under the wide and starry sky : a novel

Summary: At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium -- with her three children and nanny in tow -- to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated "belle Americaine." Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing -- and who would eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson's charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair -- marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness -- that spans the decades and the globe.

Item details

ISBN: 9780345516534 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0345516532 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780345538826 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
474 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2013]
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- Most Copies: 2 / 5.0

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Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift 1840-1914 Fiction
Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894 Fiction
Women travelers 19th century Fiction
Authors' spouses Fiction
Remarriage Fiction
Man-woman relationships Fiction
FICTION / Historical
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Contemporary Women

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Biographical fiction.
Love stories.
Historical fiction.

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