Daughter of Fortune

Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

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A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel

ISBN: 9780756905781

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Christopher Hitchens

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"The 'subject' is assuredly family life, which is also the tempestuous subtext of much of [the author]'s nonfiction."

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