Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Paperback Book

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Author: Isabel Allende

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Harpercollins

Published: Nov 2001

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $7.99

Pages: 447

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[A]n extravagant tale by a gifted storyteller whose spell brings to life the 19th century world....DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE, while entertaining and well paced, is frustratingly one-dimensional....Though Allende offers pictures of this darker world, they come across as mere snapshots, dwarfed by the sweeping historical panorama she's trying to paint....

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