Pasadena, David Ebershoff
Pasadena, David Ebershoff
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Pasadena

Author: David Ebershoff

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 20 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2005

Synopsis

Pasadena, David Ebershoffs sweeping, richly imagined novel, is set against the backdrop of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century and charts its rapid transformation from frontier to suburb. At the storys center is Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm in San Diegos North County, and the three men who upend her life and vie for her affection.

About David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff is the author of THE ROSE CITY, PASADENA, THE 19TH WIFE and THE DANISH GIRL, which has been made into a film starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by the Academy Award-winning director of THE KING'S SPEECH, Tom Hooper. His books have been translated into twenty languages and honoured by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lambda Literary Foundation and the American Library Association. He has taught writing at Princeton, NYU and Columbia, and was Vice President and Executive Editor at Random House for many years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Muriel

So far this book is not much fun. I suspect this author's first book but the descriptive narrative (particularly regarding the flora and fauna of California - and I am somewhat of a tree hugger) is a bit over the top. Doesn't move as well as subsequent books. Okay - don't bother with this one. I slug......more

Goodreads review by Joan

I have to rate this almost like 2 separate books. I enjoyed the history of California and the story of the rapid change from agricultural landscape to busy modern life. The struggle between preserving the natural state of the land and reaping economic benefits and building more and bigger homes is a......more

Goodreads review by Tim

Great material, but it never quite blossoms.......more

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