Pasadena

By John R. Childress

From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City , Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life- her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda's father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812968484
• ISBN13: 9780812968484
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable

This book, despite its length is a fairly quick read with accessible prose. I picked up this book because I live not far from where some of the novel takes place. Overall, I found the book enjoyable. It is a tragedy on a grand scale. The book does suffer in its middle stretch from a fairly plodding pace. I commend the author for his research which reflects in his enlightening historical details.

Splendid Saga Of Pasadena From A Native Son

"Pasadena" is a splendid novel which affirms David Ebershoff's talent for writing great fiction. It is a far different novel than his critically acclaimed - and popular - literary debut "The Danish Girl"; one still worth the time of a devout reader of contemporary fiction. Ebershoff's latest novel is a sprawling epic which covers almost the first half of the 20th Century, focusing on the shattered lives of Linda Stamp, her...

Great story, page turner

This wonderfully crafted story keeps you interested from the first page until the last. The characters are fascinating and the history of Pasadena was interesting and almost like an extra character. A great read!

A Saga Rich and Strange

David Ebershoff has entered the arena of current writers able to carry off The Big Story, his comrades in this arena being Richard Russo, Jocye Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy among others. PASADENA: A Novel is epic in length at 500 pages and for those readers who find books of this length daunting, all fear of ennui can be put aside. Ebershoff knows how to spin a tale and develop branches, twigs and fruit on...