Rose
By: Martin Cruz Smith
Edition: 1st Ballantine books domestic ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780345422521
Description: The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man. When he begins his search every road leads back to one woman, a haughty, vixenish pit girl named Rose. With her fiery hair and skirts pinned up over trousers, she cares nothing for a society that calls her unnatural, scandalous, erotic. As Rose and Blair circle one another, first warily, then with the heat of mutual desire, Blair loses his balance. And the lull induced by Rose's sensual touch leaves him unprepared for the bizarre, soul-scorching truth.
Notes: "This edition published by arrangement with Random House, Inc."