The Last Great Dance on Earth

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SANDRA GULLAND
was raised in Berkeley, California, where she attended San Francisco State College and the University of Cahfornia at Berkeley. After immigrating to Canada in 1970, she taught at a school in an Inuit village before moving to Toronto to work as a book editor. She has worked on the Josephine trilogy for over a decade and her books have been published worldwide. The mother of two grown children, Sandra Gulland lives near Killaloe, Ontario, with her husband.
The Last Great Dance on Earth charts the rise and fall of a great Empire and a steadfast love that outlasts treachery, exile and even death. As First Consul of France and then Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte will govern most of Europe in a domain to rival that of Charlemagne a thousand years earlier. Beside him is Josephine: confidante, lover, friend and talisman.
But their passionate union is troubled from within, as Josephine is unable to produce an heir, and from without, as England makes war against... Tovább

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FICTION
SANDRA GULLAND
was raised in Berkeley, California, where she attended San Francisco State College and the University of Cahfornia at Berkeley. After immigrating to Canada in 1970, she taught at a school in an Inuit village before moving to Toronto to work as a book editor. She has worked on the Josephine trilogy for over a decade and her books have been published worldwide. The mother of two grown children, Sandra Gulland lives near Killaloe, Ontario, with her husband.
The Last Great Dance on Earth charts the rise and fall of a great Empire and a steadfast love that outlasts treachery, exile and even death. As First Consul of France and then Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte will govern most of Europe in a domain to rival that of Charlemagne a thousand years earlier. Beside him is Josephine: confidante, lover, friend and talisman.
But their passionate union is troubled from within, as Josephine is unable to produce an heir, and from without, as England makes war against France and Napoleon s Corsican clan makes war against his wife. Through Josephine's heartfelt diary entries, we witness the personal betrayals and political intrigues that will finally drive them apart.
A companion to the highly acclaimed novels The Many Lives 6- Secret Sorrows ofJosephine B. and Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, Sandra Gulland's newest work of historical fiction is compelling and richly leavened with period detail. The Last Great Dance on Earth is a completely engrossing, passionate and tragic love story.
"The Last Great Dance on Earth is a fine read, entertaining and insightful. More than anything, I think, the pleasure of the book is due to Gulland's obvious enjoyment of Josephine as a person. Gulland got it right: the story is addictive."
— THE EDMONTON JOURNAL
" enlightening and emotionally immediate The combined effect of imagined diary and substantial historical content makes for a convincing, tender portrait of Josephine B., the woman who was a match for one of history's most titanic figures."
— THEGlOBE AND MAIL Vissza