Rose
By: Martin Cruz Smith.
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction; Women coal miners -- Fiction; Mining engineers -- Fiction; Missing persons -- Fiction; Lancashire (England) -- Fiction
Description: In 1870s England, Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer who returned from Africa, is hired by the owner of a coal mine to find a man missing after a pit explosion, a man many people don't want found. In the process he falls in love with Rose, a tough pit girl. The novel is at once a mystery, a love story and a critique of English society, the hero being an Anglophobe. By the author of Gorky Park.