num_pages: 283
description: Dutton has studied, absorbed, and toyed with the interesting life of Samoan-American entrepreneur Emma Eliza Coe (1850-1913). He has parceled her career out into 40 roughly chronological monologues from over a dozen narrators--Emma herself, her US Commercial Agent father, her beloved youngest sister, husbands, lovers, missionaries. And he has done all this in exotic detail and tasteful, evocative, lively prose. Kirkus Review
language: English
title: Queen Emma of the South Seas: A novel
titlecomplete: Queen Emma of the South Seas: A novel
ratings_count: 8
publisher: St. Martin's Press