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MY LOVE, MY LOVE: THE PEASANT GIRL By: Rosa Guy
Coffee House Press
September 2002
On Sale: September 1, 2002
168 pages ISBN: 1566891310 EAN: 9781566891318 Paperback (reprint)
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Rosa Guyβs tropical retelling of "The Little Mermaid" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of DΓ©sirΓ©e, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class fami-ly feels that DΓ©sirΓ©eβs skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy destined for power and wealth, DΓ©sirΓ©e proves that she is willing to give everything for love. This lovely reprint will break your heart. Born in Trinidad, Rosa Guy has written 15 novels and has received the Coretta Scott King Award, and The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citation.
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