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Peachtree Road - by Anne Rivers Siddons (Paperback)

Peachtree Road - by  Anne Rivers Siddons (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Tenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman. When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"A blockbuster of a novel. . . . <em>Peachtree Road</em> is the meaty and absorbing story of a city turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business, culture, and progress. . . . To say this book is potent does not come close to doing it justice. More than merely powerful, it is mesmerizing, enthralling, and totally unforgettable." -- <em>Chattanooga Free Press</em></strong></p><p>A masterful tale of love, hate, and rebellion set in an elite world of class and wealth, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons's <em>Peachtree Road</em> is the unforgettable story of the turbulent growth of a great Southern city and of two people cursed by blood and birth.</p><p>Headstrong, independent, and devastatingly beautiful Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable will never become the demure Southern lady her family requires--while her older cousin, Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III, is too shy and bookish, a far cry from the suave, gregarious Southern gentleman he's expected to be. In the Bondurants' sprawling home on Atlanta's Peachtree Road, these two will be united by a fierce tainted love--and torn apart by a smoldering rage fanned by the cruelty of years and the unbending demands of privilege. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Headstrong, independent, and devastatingly beautiful Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable will never become the demure Southern lady her family requires--while her older cousin, Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III, is too shy and bookish, a far cry from the suave, gregarious Southern gentleman he's expected to be. In the Bondurants' sprawling home on Atlanta's Peachtree Road, these two will be united by a fierce tainted love--and torn apart by a smoldering rage fanned by the cruelty of years and the unbending demands of privilege. </p><p>A masterful tale of love, hate, and rebellion set in an elite world of class and wealth, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons's <em>Peachtree Road</em> is the unforgettable story of the turbulent growth of a great Southern city and of two people cursed by blood and birth.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Compulsively readable". -- Washington Post<br>

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