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Synopsis
Nineteenth-century publishers rejected Louisa May Alcott's manuscript as too sensationalist. Today's readers can surely handle the stuff of this grown-up romantic thriller from the author of "Little Women." In it, Rosamond, a smart, strong-willed young woman who desires love and adventure falls for a wealthy, dangerously seductive Phillip Tempest, who takes her away to France to mingle with high society. When Rosamond learns that her husband has hidden an amoral past and a frightening nature, she flees. Phillip follows her across Europe in this high-paced drama of deception, bigamy, domination, and murder.
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "I shall do something desperate if this life is not changed soon."
Industry Reviews
"It contains a scoundrelly hero, a spirited heroine, an inordinate number of adjectives, and plenty of action...perhaps not what readers of Victorian light literature were prepared to approve."
Phoebe-Lou Adams
"When Alcott wrote 'A Long Fatal Love Chase' in 1866 for the magazine The Flag of Our Union, Editor James R. Eliott rejected it as being 'too long and too sensational.' That's about right....There is, however, a truly daring fictional element in 'A Long Fatal Chase': Alcott makes several veiled allusions to Rosamond's sexual fascination with Tempest....Maybe what editor Elliott found 'too sensational' about Alcott's novel was not the well-worn plot about a heroine fleeing sexual overtures of a powerful man, but rather its shadow text about a virtuous woman unable to quell her own sexual desires."
Chicago Tribune Books - Maureen Corrigan (09/03/1995)
"Much as one longs for insight into the young author's developing talent, this written-to-order serial sheds more light on what lengths a writer will go to pay for a room and board."
Erbon
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