Saratoga Trunk (Perennial Classics)
 

Saratoga Trunk (Perennial Classics)

by Edna Ferber, Stuart M. Rosen

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business -- and an eye for beautiful young women. Together they do battle with Southern gentry and Eastern society, but in their obsession to acquire all they've ever... (read more)

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Edna Ferber is becoming my favorite author. I couldn't put this book down! I wasn't familiar with this time period or plaçage and I found the story fascinating. The setting and characters described in 'Saratoga Trunk' are vivid and exciting. When I read this passage I melted: He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas.

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