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Simon and Schuster
September 2005
Featuring: Philip; Diana
384 pages
ISBN: 0743222822
Hardcover
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Romance Historical
This is the story of an American love affair.Intimate and
painfully real, this epic tale from the pages of history is
based on the lives of vivacious and iron-willed Diana
Bullitt, a Southern woman from an illustrious colonial
family, and General Philip Kearny, one of the Union's
legendary military leaders, a dissolute and passionate man
descended from two centuries of New York aristocracy. In antebellum America, a time when appearances are
paramount, Kearny introduces his beautiful young bride to a
mesmerizing world of opulence and power. But Diana's
tranquil existence soon ends when Kearny joins his cavalry
company in Mexico and returns home from the war mutilated
and suffering from trauma. Though Diana struggles to free Philip of his demons, she
discovers that she must either follow her conscience and
begin a new life for herself or submit to societal pressure
and ignore Philip's devastating addictions and his
indiscreet liaisons with other women. Rebelling against her
husband, Diana embarks on a perilous journey, experiences
the full power of her own abilities, and changes
profoundly, shedding her provincial ideas of wifely duty
and propriety. Even as Philip's and Diana's twin destinies spiral
inexorably toward disaster with the impending Civil War,
the couple is entrapped by the persistence of their desire,
their pride, and their abiding love for each other. Micaela Gilchrist uses privately held correspondence,
unpublished diaries, and family legends to create an
unforgettable love story inspired by historical figures and
actual events.
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