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The vixen : a novel / Francine Prose.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.R68 V59 2021
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Prose Vixen
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prose, Francine, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953--Fiction.
- Rosenberg, Ethel.
- Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953--Fiction.
- Rosenberg, Julius.
- Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953.
- Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953.
- National Book Committee.
- Book editors--Fiction.
- Book editors.
- Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Jews.
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Deception--Fiction.
- Deception.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 316 pages ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- 1953. Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm"s failing finances. Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's; his parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. Simon comes to realize that everyone is not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, and that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot. -- adapted from jacket
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Franklyn Rodgers.
- ISBN:
- 9780063012141
- 0063012146
- OCLC:
- 1256814783
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