Gilded Mountain

Gilded Mountain
Kate Manning
RRP:
NZ$ 58.99
Our Price:
NZ$ 47.19
Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 464pg
1 Nov 2022
International import eta 7-19 days
9781982160944
Out Of Stock
Currently no stock in-store, stock is sourced to your order
Set in early 1900s Colorado, the unforgettable tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of speaking out against injustice. In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family' s snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming "Countess" Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas of romance take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts' lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie. Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper--a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice--is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie must choose between silence and revenge. Drawn from true stories of Colorado history, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants, and is a story infused with longing--for self-expression and equality, freedom and adventure.
Praise for Gilded Mountain"Stellar. . . Manning shines at giving the era' s class, racial, and economic tensions a human face. This is one to savor. " --Publishers Weekly, *starred review*"Manning' s bildungsroman not only provides a clear portrait of her young heroine; it captures the intensity of an unsettled time and place in American history. " --Kirkus "The gold at the center of Kate Manning' s remarkably panoramic and meticulously researched new novel is one indomitable Sylvie Pelletier--an adventurer, a romantic, a crackerjack observer of worlds and hearts. Gilded Mountain is that rare thing: a historical page-turner that nimbly moves from gritty mining shafts to elegant drawing rooms of an earlier America with all its seething and striving, and where--then, as now--fates are decided by a stroke of luck or unluck, kindness and corruption, and reinvention. " --Carol Edgarian, author of Vera "Kate Manning is a master storyteller. Gilded Mountain is so immersive, so richly imagined, that reading it feels akin to time travel. Manning writes historical sagas like no one else; the dreamers, strivers, and opportunists who populate this tale possess a uniquely American desire to reinvent themselves, whatever it takes. An epic story of love, hope and perseverance. " --#1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline"Here is adventure of the first order, as young Sylvie Pelletier finds herself thrust into a seething union dispute ina marble-quarrying town. There' s violence in the wintry air, but also romance, as two charismatic men vie for Sylvie' s attention. Dread and love entwine, as the forces and people that transformed the 20th century converge on the town, all this rendered by Ms. Manning in prose as clean and sharp as the stone saws on the mountain. I raced through it. Sylvie is dynamite and Gilded Mountain is brilliant. " --#1 New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson "The best historical novels sing because, through them, we feel the reverberations of the past in the present day. Hard work, love, sorrow, revenge, joy -- Gilded Mountain hums with all of this and more. " --Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes
Kate Manning is the author of the critically acclaimed novels My Notorious Life and Whitegirl. A former documentary television producer and winner of two Emmy Awards, she has written for TheNew York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Time, Glamour, and The Guardian, among other publications. She has taught creative writing at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan, and lives with her family in New York City.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781982160944
Published: 1 Nov 2022
Published In:
Imprint: Scribner Book Company
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 635g
Pages: 464

In stock - for items in stock we aim to dispatch the next business day. For delivery in NZ allow 2-5 business days, with rural taking a wee bit longer.

Locally sourced in NZ - stock comes from a NZ supplier with an approximate delivery of 7-15 business days.

International Imports - stock is imported into NZ, depending on air or sea shipping option from the international supplier stock can take 10-30 working days to arrive into NZ. 

Pre-order Titles - delivery will vary depending on where the title is published, if local stock is available in NZ then 5-7 business days, for international imports it can be 10-30 business days. In all cases we will access the quickest supply option.

Delivery Packaging - we ship all items in cardboard sleeves or by box with either packing paper or corn starch chips. (We avoid using plastics bubble bags)

Tracking - Orders are delivered by track and trace courier and are fully insured, tracking information will be sent by email once dispatched.

View our full Order & Delivery information