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The Gilded Edge
- Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
- By: Catherine Prendergast
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the twentieth century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and Bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of real estate developer George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage would offer, threatened now that her philandering husband has taken to writing poetry.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why?
- By UMICHReader on 01-18-22
- The Gilded Edge
- Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
- By: Catherine Prendergast
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Women’s Disposable Leagcy
Reviewed: 11-04-21
This story, while touching on and walking through the polished history of idyllic Carmel, exposes a powerful example of talented women swept that are under the rug. The men, even the truly talentless, go on to enshrined stature despite running in the same circles.
If you’ve been to Carmel and walked by he paths described in the book your view of the place will change. After finishing the story one can only wonder about the origin lies we are told about other cities.
This nonfiction story of “stuff you couldn’t make up” will hit you in the gut if you are a man. We deserve it.
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