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After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1944, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already ashamed of his colour-blind son's inability to serve in WWII. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour (and generosity) is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces. In January 1945 they hitch a ride on a ship across the Atlantic while the war is still raging all around them. And Maddie, now alone and virtually abandoned in a foreign country, must begin to work out who she is and what she wants the vacuous life she left behind or something more real?
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At the water's edge, Sara Gruen
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- Rok vydání
- 2015
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- Titul
- At the water's edge
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Sara Gruen
- Vydavatel
- Two roads
- Rok vydání
- 2015
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 416
- ISBN10
- 1473604737
- ISBN13
- 9781473604735
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Historické téma, Romantika, Historické romány, Láska, Rodina, Přátelství, Válečná próza, Války, Druhá světová válka, 20. století, Úmrtí, Manželství, Skotsko, Pátrání, Kanadská literatura, Emancipace
- První vydání
- 2015
- Původní název
- At the Waters Edge
- Hodnocení
- 3,65 z 5
- Anotace
- After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1944, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already ashamed of his colour-blind son's inability to serve in WWII. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour (and generosity) is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces. In January 1945 they hitch a ride on a ship across the Atlantic while the war is still raging all around them. And Maddie, now alone and virtually abandoned in a foreign country, must begin to work out who she is and what she wants the vacuous life she left behind or something more real?