Publication

2003 - Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

124,500 words, Guess

Page Count

498 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003272864
  • Better World Books9780812968484
  • Open LibraryOL3704683M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3555.B4824 P37 2003
  • LCCPS3555.B4824P37 2003

Description

From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda's father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.From the Trade Paperback edition.

First Sentence

ON A DECEMBER MORNING in 1944, Mr. Andrew Jackson Blackwood-a young-faced, self-made man who had been in California twelve or fourteen years, depending on whom you asked-was making his way down El Camino Real.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • Pasadena: a novelRandom House Trade Paperbacks2003-01-01
Show 1 more editions

Reader Reviews

No reviews yet for this book.

Be the first to share your thoughts!