false 85987 48 Isabel Allende has established herself as one of the most consummate of all modern storytellers, a reputation that is confirmed in her novel <I>Portrait in Sepia</I>. Allende offers a compelling saga of the turbulent history, lives, and loves of late 19th-century Chile, drawing on characters from her earlier novels, <I>The House of Spirits</I> and <I>Daughter of Fortune</I>.<p> In typical Allende fashion, <I>Portrait in Sepia</I> is crammed with love, desire, tragedy, and dark family secrets, all played out against the dramatic backdrop of revolutionary Chile. Our heroine Aurora del Valle's mother is a Chilean-Chinese beauty, while her father is a dissolute scion of the wealthy and powerful del Valle family. At the heart of Aurora's slow, painful re-creation of her childhood towers one of Allende's greatest fictional creations, the heroine's grandmother, Paulina del Valle. An "astute, bewigged Amazon with a gluttonous appetite," Paulina holds both the del Valle family and Allende's novel together as she presides over Aurora's adolescence in a haze of pastries, taffeta, and overweening love.<p> One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is Allende's decision to turn her heroine into a photographer: "through photography and the written word I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evanesce, to untangle the confusion of my past." There is little confusion in Allende's elegantly crafted and hugely enjoyable novel. <I>--Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk</I> 3311687 2000 Portrait in Sepia: A Novel (P.S.) total:4266|5:950|4:1830|3:1232|2:216|1:38| 4266 16236 5469 295 2 1 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 13:26:08 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 17:39:53 -0800 2009 It just doesn't work. I can't even accuse the au...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 06 14:15:36 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 23:26:20 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 14:15:36 -0800 2008 “only passionate people make interesting characters. Nice people with common sense only make good former spouses”.
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Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende
pg 97-98

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From the Publisher
Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile,...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 18:08:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 18:08:49 -0700 2009
Portrait in Sepia is as enthralling as any American soap opera, with beautiful women and reluctant lovers and mismatched husbands and wives. Portrait in Sepia is more than a great tale with intriguing characters and inventive plot twists, though. It's also a thoughtful look...more...]]>