What's Bred in the Bone Illustrated

By: Allen, Grant

Its convoluted and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the ancestry of the Waring twin brothers and of Elma Clifford. Elma comes on her mother's side from a line of gypsy snake dancers, and she displays a periodic urge to dance wildly with a feather boa in her bedroom. A murderous judge, multiple mistaken identities and scenes of tribal life in South Africa decorate this extraordinary novel, which is certainly a testament to Grant Allen's versatility and grasp of the popular market.Excerpt from What's Bred in the BoneThere was something so comically alarmed in the ring of his tone - as of a naughty Schoolboy detected in a piece of mischief - that, propriety to the contrary notwithstanding, Elma couldn't for the life of her repress a smile. She looked down at the seat where the stranger pointed, and there, sure enough, coiled up in huge folds, with his glossy head in attitude to spring at her, a great banded snake lay alert and open-eyed.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1702862623
• ISBN13: 9781702862622
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"