About “On Green Dolphin Street”
Set in America in 1959, the novel follows Mary van der Linden, who lives a seemingly happy life with her husband Charlie, a British embassy worker in Washington, and their two children. As the 1960 presidential election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon approaches, Mary begins a passionate affair with Frank, an American newspaper reporter, forcing her to face an impossible decision.
Praise for “On Green Dolphin Street”
“A romance full of luminous insights, brimming with feeling and paced to perfection. . . . No contemporary author writes with more power, more eloquent simplicity.”
“Smart, well-wrought . . . a tenderly orchestrated love story. . . . everything an old-fashioned novel is supposed to do. . . . It will provoke and linger.”
“Faulks is an exquisite observer. . . . The characters inhabit a setting so exotic and vivid, so correct in all its details, that it floods them with animating light.”
Book details
- Published
- 1999
- Latest edition
- 1999 · ISBN 9780375704567
- ISBN
- 9780375704567
Frequently asked questions
How many pages is On Green Dolphin Street?
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks has 368 pages.
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