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Rent On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Jul 2005
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 273
Synopsis
In the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last in her long, eventful life--Emma Garnet Tate Lowell sets down on paper what came before, determined to make an honest account of it. She recalls her life on the plantation, her marriage to a Boston surgeon, her survival of the Civil War, and the terrible secret which shaped her father's life.
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