Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason, as her old friend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal. Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakes a perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sins and crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws may be broken--what sins and crimes committed--in the service of a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . even murder? This novel thrillingly evokes a nineteenth-century America not so different from the present: a time of stunning new technologies and financial collapse, when religious and racial views collided with avowed principles of morality and law.
| ISBN | 9780393350036 |
| Autor(a) | Kingman, Peg |
| Editora | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Ano de edição | 2010 |
| Páginas | 442 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 23,40 X 15,60 |