White Oleander
Janet Fitch
(Author)
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Description
The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.
Product Details
Price
$19.99
$18.59
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Publish Date
May 01, 2000
Pages
480
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.1 X 1.3 inches | 0.9 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780316284950
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About the Author
Janet Fitch is the author of the novels White Oleander (Little Brown, 1999), an Oprah Book club selection translated into 24 languages and made into a feature motion picture, Paint It Black (Little, Brown 2006), also widely translated and made into a feature film, and The Revolution of Marina M. (Little, Brown 2017) set during the years of the Russian Revolution. A fourth novel completing Marina's story, Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, will be published by Little, Brown in summer 2019. Fitch lives in her hometown of Los Angeles with her writer husband Andrew Nicholls.
