{"product_id":"the-world-before-her-paperback","title":"The World Before Her - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Weisgall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarian Evans--who writes under the pen name George Eliot--has come to Venice on her honeymoon. It is 1880 and she is newly married to John Cross, twenty years her junior. She has come to this city of canals and bridges to start again, to forget the death of her longtime partner, George Henry Lewes--with whom she shared twenty five years of happiness and art. In this new marriage, in this intensely romantic place, can she give herself the happy ending that she provided for Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA century later, sculptor Caroline Spingold takes us to Venice again. Scarred by her father's abandonment just after she and her parents spent a summer in the city, Caroline vowed never to return. But now her powerful, wealthy older husband has brought her back against her will, to celebrate their tenth anniversary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in alternating chapters subtly linked by themes of art, love, and the challenges of marriage, The World Before Her tells of two women, their surprising similarities, and the reckoning Venice will force them to make with their desire, their memories, and their very selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbrief and beautiful story of how we get over love, and how we have changed in our struggles to name and contain it by marriage. \u003ci\u003eThe World Before Her\u003c\/i\u003e is not the lightest book you'll pick up this summer, but it might be one of the smartest, and most vibrant. -- \u003ci\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIt is 1880when Marian Evans-- pen name George Eliot--has come toVenice on her honeymoon with John Cross, who is twenty years her junior. She wants so much to start again, to forget the death of her longtime partner, George Henry Lewes-- with whom she shared twenty-five years of happiness and art, to give herself the happy ending she provided for \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e's Dorothea Brooke. A century later, sculptor Caroline Spingold takes us to Venice again. Scarred by a summer she and her parents had spent in this city, she had vowed never to return. But now her powerful, wealthy older husband has brought her back, against her will, to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. A novel of art, love, and the challenges of marriage, \u003ci\u003eThe World Before Her\u003c\/i\u003e tells of two women, their surprising similarities, and the reckoningthis city of canals and bridges will force them to make with their desire, their memories, their very selves.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"It all makes one yearn for Venice; for art; and for another novel just like this one.\" -- \u003ci\u003eBuffalo News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDeborah Weisgall has written extensively about the arts painting, music, performance for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConnoisseur\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of the novel, \u003ci\u003eStill Point\u003c\/i\u003e, and the family memoir, \u003ci\u003eA Joyful Noise\u003c\/i\u003e. Weisgall lives with her husband and daughter in Lincoln, Massachusetts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.01 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761823645984,"sku":"9780547237961","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b8446acfbd06ae96e9816fd2cbb06964.webp?v=1780213613","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-world-before-her-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}