The Glass Ocean by Lori Baker - ISBN: 9781844089482
Paperback
Orphaned giantess unlocks family secrets in a gemlike Victorian world.

The Glass Ocean

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    11 November 2014

Summary

THE GLASS OCEAN is a story of becoming.

Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell’oro recounts the lives of her parents - solitary glassmaker Leonardo Dell’oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard - and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance.

With a master artisan’s patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist Lori Baker has created a gemlik…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844089482
ISBN-10:1844089487
Author:Lori Baker
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:11 November 2014
Weight:254g
Dimensions:198mm x 127mm x 22mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

An adventure of dreamlike momentum and romantic intensity, brought alive by a storyteller with uncanny access to the Victorians, not only to the closely-woven texture of their days but also to the dangerous nocturnal fires being attended to in their hearts

Dazzling … a haunting gem of a novel that subtly makes its mark. In The Glass Ocean, Baker has created a compelling, unforgettable version of Victorian England - Guardian

About The Author

Lori Baker

Lori Baker is the author of Crash and Tell: Stories, Crazy Water: Six Fictions, which won the Mamdouha S. Bobst Literary Award for emerging writers, and Scraps. She has taught fiction writing, journalism, and composition at Brown University, Boston College, and Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.

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