Книга: Jennifer Donnelly «These Shallow Graves»
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Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon - like all the girls in her class - she'll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo secretly dreams of becoming a writer - a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo's life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: her father is found dead. Charles Montfort accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver. One of New York City's wealthiest men, he owned a newspaper and was a partner in a massive shipping firm, and Jo knows he was far too smart to clean a loaded gun. The more Jo uncovers about her father's death, the more her suspicions grow. There are too many secrets. And they all seem to be buried in plain sight. Then she meets Eddie - a young, brash, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father's newspaper - and it becomes all too clear how much she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be... Издательство: "Delacorte Press" (2015) Формат: 155x230, 496 стр.
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Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly (born 1963 in Port Chester,
Early life
Donnelly's grandparents had fled from
Education
Donnelly attended the
Career
Donnelly moved to back to New York, to Brooklyn, at the age of 25. After ten years of work, during which she claims to have been rejected by every publishing house in New York [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press/pres_carnegie_back_04.htm] , Donnelly published her first novel, "The Tea Rose". "The Tea Rose" is the first book of a trilogy ("The Winter Rose" being the second, the third yet to be published) based in the 19th Century in London's East End, with ties to the story of
"A Northern Light" was her second published novel, and biggest success to date. The young adult novel is based around the infamous murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the Adirondacks in 1906. This case was earlier the basis for
In 2004, "A Northern Light" won the [http://www.latimes.com/extras/bookprizes/winners2003.html Los Angeles Times Book Prize] , as well as the
Personal
Donnelly currently lives in both Brooklyn and Tivoli,
External links
* [http://www.jenniferdonnelly.com jenniferdonnelly.com]
Источник: Jennifer Donnelly
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