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Peninsula Of Lies
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Author : Edward Ball
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Peninsula Of Lies written by Edward Ball and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Peninsula of Lies is a nonfiction mystery, set in haunting locales and peopled with fascinating characters, that unwraps the enigma of a woman named Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and became the focus of one of the most unusual sexual scandals of the last century. Born in England sometime before World War II, Dawn Langley Simmons began life as a boy named Gordon Langley Hall. Gordon was the son of servants at Sissinghurst Castle, the estate of Vita Sackville-West, where as a child he met Vita's lover Virginia Woolf. In his twenties, Gordon made his way to New York, where he became an author of society biographies and befriended such grandes dames as the actress Margaret Rutherford and the artist and heiress Isabel Whitney, who left him a small fortune. The money allowed Gordon to buy a mansion in Charleston and fill it with period furniture, providing a stage for him to entertain more great ladies and to climb the social ladder of the Southern gentry to its heights. However, Gordon's world changed instantly in 1968, when at The Johns Hopkins Hospital he underwent one of the first sex-reassignment surgeries, returning to Southern society and scandalizing Charleston as the new Dawn Langley Hall. Dawn Hall furthermore announced that her surgery had been corrective, because she'd actually been misidentified as a boy at birth. Three months later, Dawn raised the stakes in still-segregated Charleston when she arranged her very public marriage to a young black mechanic, John-Paul Simmons. In due course, Dawn appeared around town pregnant; finally, she could be seen pushing a baby carriage with a child -- her daughter, Natasha. National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball (Slaves in the Family) has written a detective story that deciphers the riddle of Dawn Simmons, a once rich and infamous changeling who died in 2000, her sexual identity never determined. Peninsula of Lies is an engrossing narrative of a person who tested every taboo, as well as the confidence of observers in their own eyes.
Peninsula Of Lies
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Author : Edward Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Peninsula Of Lies written by Edward Ball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with categories.
In the tradition of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," the National Book Award winner for "Slaves in the Family" investigates the strange-but-true life of the mysterious Charleston socialite, Dawn Langley Simmons.
Peninsula Of Lies
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Author : Edward Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Peninsula Of Lies written by Edward Ball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Authors, American categories.
Peninsula of Lies is an enthralling investigation of a bizarre life that begins in Kent, England with the birth of an illegitimate baby and ends in south Carolina, USA with a sex-change and a scandal.Edward Ball unwraps a mystery that has fascinated a succession of authors in the past decade. Who was Gordon Langley Hall, the illegitimate son of two servants at Sissinghurst Castle (home of author Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, diplomat, author and politician)? Gordon becomes the recipient of the millions of an American heiress, author of biographies (including the eccentric English actress, Margaret Rutherford, the original screen 'Miss Marple'), and moves to Charleston, south Carolina. There Gordon changes sex and reinvents him/herself as Dawn Langley Hall. The mystery deepens when Dawn marries a young black mechanic (the matrons of the still-segregated Charleston are appalled), appears around the town apparantly pregnant a few months later claims that the daughter she is seen pushing around the town in a pram is actually her own.Edward Ball, who won the American National Book Award for Slaves in the Family, investigates Hall's story and in the final chapter offers his solution.
Annual Report
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Author : Michigan. State Board of Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Annual Report written by Michigan. State Board of Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
Annual Report
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Author : Michigan. Department of Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Annual Report written by Michigan. Department of Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Michigan categories.
Annual Report Of The Secretary Of The State Board Of Health Of The State Of Michigan For The Fiscal Year Ending
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Author : Michigan. State Board of Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Annual Report Of The Secretary Of The State Board Of Health Of The State Of Michigan For The Fiscal Year Ending written by Michigan. State Board of Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Public health categories.
Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of The Michigan Department Of Health
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Author : Michigan. Department of Health
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of The Michigan Department Of Health written by Michigan. Department of Health and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.
The Antarctic Pilot
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Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Antarctic Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Natural history categories.
Geology And Mineral Resources Of Kenai Peninsula Alaska
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Author : George Curtis Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Geology And Mineral Resources Of Kenai Peninsula Alaska written by George Curtis Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Geology categories.
Folktales From The Arabian Peninsula
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Author : Nadia Jameel Taibah
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Folktales From The Arabian Peninsula written by Nadia Jameel Taibah and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This unique and diverse selection of traditional folktales from the countries of the Arabian Peninsula appeals to a broad audience, ranging from storytellers and educators to folklorists and scholars. A unique compilation of stories, Folktales from the Arabian Peninsula includes tales from seven countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Coauthored by a renowned folklorist and a professor of education who recalls some of these poignant tales from her own childhood, the book opens with a discussion of the Arabian Peninsula that introduces each country and discusses its terrain, peoples, and current situation to provide important background information. The engaging stories that follow will serve elementary, junior high, and high school librarians as well as public librarians, professional storytellers, and folklorists. The tales themselves—many of which have never been published in English language children's collections—are appropriate for readers grades five and up.