Belle Cora

Resource Information

The work Belle Cora represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Belle Cora

Statement of responsibility

Phillip Margulies

Creator

• Margulies, Phillip, 1952-

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Amerikanisches Englisch
• California -- San Francisco
• Fiction
• Fiction
• Gamblers
• Gamblers -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Joueurs (Jeux de hasard) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Manners and customs
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• 1800 - 1899.
• Orphans
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Prostitutes
• Prostitutes -- Fiction
• Prostituées -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Reminiscing in old age
• Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
• Roman
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Souvenir chez la personne âgée -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• New York (State) -- New York

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires
• In 1838, Arabella Godwin and her brother, Lewis, are orphaned and sent to live on their aunt's desolate farm in upstate New York. Time and again she will be broken and remade. She will bear a gambler's child, build a fortune, commit murder, leave a trail of aliases in her wake and sacrifice almost everything for the man whose love she cannot bear to lose. Her destiny takes her to Gold Rush California ... where she disappears

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography