by Frank Yerby · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432054846
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«La chica de Storyville» is the historical novel by Frank Yerby, published by Planeta in hardback (571 pages, in Spanish).
In New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century, Fanny Turner, daughter of a police lieutenant, grows up marked by her parents' divorce and her father's obsession. Despite the affection of her stepmother Martha and the love of Philippe Sompayac, she feels «nacida mala» and ends up in prostitution. The puritanism of Storyville drags her to a tragic end.
The original novel, The Girl From Storyville: A Victorian Novel, was published in 1972; this Spanish edition appeared in 1976.
For readers of historical fiction and period dramas set in the nineteenth century.
Frank Garvin Yerby was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.
