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ISBN: 978-0-9819553-0-8
(trade paperback - 8.5 x 5.5)

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Three Clover Press
Second Edition

Date of Release: February 12, 2009

Page count: 250

 

Available through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and others. Includes traditional wholesale discounts and return policy.

 

2008 national publicity for My Splendid Concubine organized by Event Management Services, Inc., and Pump Up Your Book Promotions.

 

2009 national publicity for My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart organized by American Marketing Experts, Inc.

 

Publicity Contact: Penny C. Sansevieri
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www.amarketingexpert.com

 

 

My Splendid Concubine is the  love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to know about.

Praise for My Splendid Concubine

Honorable Mentions in General Fiction

 

2009 Hollywood Book Festival Winner

2009 San Francisco Book Festival Winner

2008 London Book Festival Winner

 

"My Splendid Concubine is packed cover to cover with intriguing characters and plot, a must read for historical fiction fans and a fine addition to any collection on the genre."
—Midwest Book Review Online.

 “A fascinating illumination of nineteenth-century Chinese culture and the complex Englishman Robert Hart, the father of China’s modernization. Hart’s struggles adapting to Chinese culture, always feeling the pull and force of his Victorian British background, are compelling. His relationships with his concubine and his concubine’s sister are poignant—the novel is as much a study of the complexities of love as it is anything else. A powerful novel ...”
—Judge of 2008 Writer’s Digest Self Published Book Awards

"If even half of Lofthouse's narrative is true, it's a stunning work that enmeshes imperialism, modernity, miscegenation and plain old desire in a sweaty matrix of destructionand painful birth."—City Weekend Magazine

 

 

 

Lloyd Lofthouse earned a BA in journalism after fighting in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine. While working days as an English teacher at a high school in California, he enjoyed a second job as a maitre d’ in a multimillion-dollar nightclub. He now lives near San Francisco with his wife, with a second home in Shanghai, China. His short story, A Night at the ‘Well of Purity’ was named as a finalist for the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards.

 

 

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