On Green Dolphin Street
On Green Dolphin Street
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Desc: The bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray delivers an enthralling vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960 when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden a pretty reserved Englishwoman whose husband Charlie is posted to the British embassy in Washington. One night at a cocktail party Mary meets Frank Renzo a reporter who has covered stories from the fall of Dienbienphu to the Emmett Till murder trial in Mississippi. Slowly reluctantly they fall in love. Their ensuing affair in all its desperate elation plays out against a backdrop that ranges from the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village to the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy campaign. A romance in the grand tradition that is also a neon-lit portrait of America at its apogee On Green Dolphin Street is Sebastian Faulks at the peak of his powers.