The Reserve : a novel / Russell Banks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banks, Russell, 1940-2023.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rich people--Fiction.

Rich people.

History.

United States.

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.).

New York (State)--Fiction.

New York (State).

United States--History--1933-1945--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

287 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, [2008]

Summary:

Twenty-nine-year-old Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress, the adopted only child of a highly regarded New York brain surgeon and his socialite wife. Twice married, Vanessa has been scandalously linked to any number of rich and famous men. But on the night of July 4, 1936, at her parents' country home in a remote Adirondack Mountain enclave known as The Reserve, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life: her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, and a mysteriously seductive local artist, Jordan Groves, blithely lands his Waco biplane in the pristine waters of the forbidden Upper Lake. . . . [Jordan] falls easy prey to her electrifying personality, but it is not long before he discovers that the heiress carries a dark, deeply scarring family secret. Emotionally unstable from the start, and further unhinged by her father's unexpected death, Vanessa begins to spin wildly out of control, manipulating and destroying the lives of all who cross her path.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9780061430251

0061430250

OCLC:

156816770