The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser

It was the 14th of July 1789-- In a corner of southwestern France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change. The Rose Growerthrows a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life. Joseph, a young working-class doctor, is also drawn into her orbit, and finds himself fatally torn between reason and desire, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love. This 2000 Vintage Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780091842048 SKU: 1472864 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1472864
Location: Fiction