New Orleans Legacy

Ripley, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 0446342106 / ISBN 13: 9780446342100

Published by Warner Books/Warner Communications Company, New York NY, 1988

About this Item

missing piece from front cover and stepback, text is Very Good.

Seller Inventory # QR09120

Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Orleans Legacy
• Publisher: Warner Books/Warner Communications Company, New York NY
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446342106
• ISBN 13: 9780446342100
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

When Mary McAlistair's father dies leaving the whole estate to her scheming stepmother, Mary decides to journey to New Orleans to learn about her Creole background and a secret from her past

From Publishers Weekly

Set in antebellum Louisiana, this historical romance follows the fortunes of Mary McAlister, raised in a convent in Pennsylvania. When Mary's father dies, leaving his fortune to his unscrupulous second wife, 16-year-old Mary sets out for New Orleans to find her real mother's family. The naive girl soon falls into the clutches of New Orleans' most infamous madam. Mary escapes the brothel, virtue intact, but not before she is seen there by Valmont Saint-Brevin, a handsome Creole aristocrat. As Mary wanders the strange city, her path crosses that of her Aunt Celeste who, hoping to retain the inheritance left by Mary's mother, hides her identity from her niece. Mary perseveres through poverty, drudgery, a sham marriage and subsequent rape, voodoo and a yellow fever epidemic, the mesmerizing Saint-Brevin toying with her heart all the while. Ripley (Charleston includes potentially interesting historical detail, but it is all but obscured by the sorely abused conventions of the historical romance genre that dominate her story. As the coincidence-laden plot twists towards its predictable ending, its myriad stereotyped characters utter dialogue embarrassing enough to make Robert E. Lee blush in his grave. Readers Digest Condensed Book selection; Literary Guild alternate.
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