The Greenbrier Resort : a novel of Dorothy Draper
(2022)

Fiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Harper Muse, 2022
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ISBN/ISSN
9781400234387 (electronic bk.) MWT14989751, 1400234387 (electronic bk.) 14989751
LANGUAGE
English
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She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. Only the aristocracy's annual summer trips to the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of the passion and adventure she wants. But her family intervenes, sentencing Dorothy to the life she hopes to escape. Thirty-eight years later, as World War II draws to a close, Dorothy has done everything a woman in the early twentieth century should not: she has divorced her husband-scandalous-and established America's first interior design firm-shocking. Now, Dorothy returns to the Greenbrier with the assignment to restore it to something even greater than its original glory. With her beloved company's future hanging in the balance and brimming with daring, unconventional ideas, Dorothy has one more chance to give her dreams wings or succumb to her what society tells her is her inescapable fate. Based on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Greenbrier Resort is a moving tale of one woman's quest to transform the walls that hold her captive

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