num_pages: 208
description: Widowed at thirty, beautiful, resourceful Therese Lafirme is left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Therese falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultuous path that involves Hosmer's troubled former wife, Fanny.At Fault is set in the Post-Reconstruction rural South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tensions. Written at the beginning of her career, it has parallels to Chopin's own life and contains characters and themes that prefigure her later works, including The Awakening.--back cover
language: English
title: At Fault
titlecomplete: At Fault
genres: Fiction, American, Womens, Female Authors, Romance, Classics, Feminism, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 413
publisher: Penguin Books