The Phoenix crown : a novel /
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes, Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes, Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined, until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice. |
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| Physical Description: | 391 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780063304734 0063304732 |