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Love, murder, & long held family secrets in the rice country bayous of Louisiana. Very well done, & a really good story :) I really liked the fact that the author, in doing the dialogue, stayed true to the native patois & way of speaking for the time as well
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Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers - Part II - 1940 - 1979
355 works; 5 members
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75+ Works 3,667 Members
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- Canonical title
- Victorine
- Dedication
- To MARIE MOUTON NEHRBASS: A lady who combines all Spiritual with all social graces Whom I love very dearly And who, I am proud to say, Has adopted me as Cousin Frances
- First words
- "Well, thanks a million, Captain Bob. No one but you could have ferreted this out for me."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She would try to believe that, after all, this was what mattered most in life.
- Disambiguation notice
- Victorine was published in England under the title The Gold Slippers (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958).
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.91 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999
- LCC
- PZ3 .K5213 .V — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Members
- 110
- Popularity
- 295,124
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.13)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 12
