Format:
Book
Author:
Colin, Beatrice, author.
Title:
To capture what we cannot keep / Beatrice Colin.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Flatiron Books, 2016.
Description:
289 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who, because of her precarious financial situation, is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Emile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, Cait and Emile must decide what their love is worth.
Subjects:
Widows -- Fiction.
Businessmen -- Fiction.
Social classes -- France -- Fiction.
Tour Eiffel (Paris, France) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
LCCN:
2016016418
ISBN:
9781250071446 (hardback)
1250071445 (hardback)
Other Number:
913924460
System Availability:
24
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3471145
Call Number:
823/.92
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
24