The house of forgetting : a novel /
A little Hispanic girl is kidnaped by a widowed professor from Chicago. He keeps her prisoner for two decades, never letting her out of the house as he trains her to be his ideal of womanhood, intelligent, cultured, beautiful. One day Claudia Santos, now 30 and possessing all those qualities turns o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperCollinsPublishers,
[1997]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | A little Hispanic girl is kidnaped by a widowed professor from Chicago. He keeps her prisoner for two decades, never letting her out of the house as he trains her to be his ideal of womanhood, intelligent, cultured, beautiful. One day Claudia Santos, now 30 and possessing all those qualities turns on him with a knifnye, police are called and the abduction comes to light. By the author of Carry Me Like Water. |
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| Physical Description: | 341 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0060187387 : |