Belle Cora

by Phillip Margulies

Book Overview

In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor plots her downfall; a preacher looks at her from across his pulpit and tries to forget that once she was his wife. Merchant's daughter, farm girl, prostitute,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307476030
• ISBN13: 9780307476036
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"