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Author:

Kamensky, Jane.

Title:

Blindspot : a novel / Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore.

Edition:

Trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2008

Description:

529 , [1] p. : map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Painters--Fiction.
Exiles--Fiction.
Scots--New York--Fiction.
Scots--United States--History--18th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Lepore, Jill, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-518). Published in hardcover 2008. Reprinted in paperback 2009 with a reading group guide.

Summary:

In Boston in 1764, the sudden death of revolutionary leader Samuel Bradstreet causes Scottish portrait painter Stewart Jameson and his apprentice Francis Weston, to search for the truth. Jameson is a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America's far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new world, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all. Fanny Easton is a lady in disguise, a young, fallen woman from Boston's most prominent family; she becomes Jameson's defiant and seductive apprentice, Francis Weston. Liberty is what everyone's seeking in boisterous, rebellious Boston on the eve of the American Revolution. But everyone suffers from a kind of blind spot, too. Jameson, distracted by his haunted past, can't see that Fanny is a woman; Fanny, consumed with her own masquerade, can't tell that Jameson is falling in love with her. The city's Sons of Liberty can't quite see their way clear, either. "Ably do they see the shackles Parliament fastens about them," Jameson writes, "but to the fetters they clasp upon their own slaves, they are strangely blind."

ISBN:

0385526202 (pbk.) :
9780385526203 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)299708708

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)