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Rent Portrait in Sepia
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Narrator: Margaret Sayers Peden
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published: Nov 2001
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $49.95
Discs: 10
Synopsis
In this sequel to DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE, Aurora del Valle, who belongs to a large and colorful Chilean family, looks back on the 30 years of her life and the events leading up to her birth, covering the years 1862 to 1910. In the process she provides a history of her family--including her beautiful mother, her Chinese grandfather, and her eccentric and obese grandmother Paulina.
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