02824cam a2200313 4500 526311134 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620400159 1620400154 B00J5ED8EC Amazon 73aa03bc-2e8e-4735-9c58-243858aee968 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1862273 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lovric, Michelle. The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters [OverDrive] : A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 697kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>It's rural Ireland in the second half of the nineteenth century, the age of the Pre-Raphaelites, when Europe burns with a passion for long, flowing locks. So when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognize their potential.</p> <p>Soon, they're a singing and dancing septet: Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not their singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. In an Ireland still hungry and melancholy with the Great Famine, the Swiney hair is a rich offering. And their hair will take dark-hearted Darcy, bickering twins Berenice and Enda, plain Pertilly, gentle Oona, wild Ida, and fearful, flame-haired Manticory—the writer of their on- and off-stage adventures—out of poverty, through the dance halls of Ireland, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring them suitors and obsessive admirers, it will bring some of them love and each of them loss. For their past trails behind the sisters like the tresses on their heads and their fame and fortune will come at a terrible price.</p> <p>Rich in period detail, peopled by a bewitching cast of characters, <i>The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters</i> is a tale of exploitation and celebrity, illegitimacy and sibling rivalry, love triangles and financial skullduggery, of death and devilry. And a very great deal of hair.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/true-and-splendid-73aa03?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/true-and-splendid-73aa03?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/true-and-splendid-73aa03?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)