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Belva Plain: Three Complete Novels

Name: Belva Plain: Three Complete Novels
Author: Belva Plain
ISBN: 9780517100660

by Belva Plain

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Overview

Evergreen
Share the intensely moving story of Anna Frieman, a woman of captivating beauty who comes to the shores of America to seek a better life, but is haunted by irreconcilable love. Travel with her from the New York City sweatshops to the ballrooms of Vienna, from the Nazi death camps to a lavish suburban estate, caught up in her families soaring rise from searing poverty to spectacular wealth and success. Random Winds
Meet the magnificent Farrell family, three generations of doctors who journey from a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to a war torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great Manhattan hospital. Witness this dedicated, brilliant family driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could dare suppress. Eden Burning
Journey from an exotic Caribbean island to the opulent glamour of New York City, enfolded in a story of a beautiful woman who learns the dark side of desire and is banished from her plantation paradise. Years later, a cosmopolitan sophisticate, she is drawn to the island, to its potent secrets, its explosive political unrest, its intoxicating heat of clandestine love-all ready to ignite as one.

Believable characters and opulent settings make Belva Plain's books instant bestsellers. Includes Eden Burning, Random Winds, and Evergreen.

About the Author, Belva Plain

Belva Plain

Known for her dramatic love epics with vivid characterizations Belva Plain first entranced readers back in 1979 with the made-for-miniseries romance, Evergreen.

Biography

Belva Plain captured readers' hearts with her first novel, Evergreen (1978), published when the author was a grandmother. It topped The New York Times bestseller list for 41 weeks and aired as an NBC-TV miniseries in 1985. In all, twenty of her novels appeared on The New York Times best-seller list.

Before she became a novelist, Belva Plain wrote short stories for many major magazines (she sold her first story to Cosmopolitan), but taking care of a husband and three children did not give her the time to concentrate on the novel she always wanted to write. In retrospect, she said, "I didn't make the time." Now, with well over 25 million copies of her books in print, translated into 22 languages, her fans can be grateful she demonstrated a better-late-than-never attitude.

A Barnard College graduate who majored in history, Belva Plain enjoyed a wonderful marriage of more than 40 years to Irving Plain, an ophthalmologist, who died in 1982. She lived most of her life in New Jersey where she and her husband raised their family. Belva Plain died at her home in October 2010. She was 95.

Author biography courtesy of Random House, Inc.

Good To Know

Plain's first short story was published in Cosmopolitan magazine when she was twenty-five; her first novel was published nearly forty years later.

When she wasn't writing, Plain enjoyed opera, ballet, nature, history, dogs, and reading.