Riven Rock

Riven Rock
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : 9781408826799
ISBN-13 : 1408826798
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Riven Rock by : T. C. Boyle

Download or read book Riven Rock written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women's suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole. Based on a true story of love, madness and sexuality this is a tragic book with enormous depth and scope. Set in America at the turn of the century, it is full of fascinating historical detail.


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