OurHart, Elegy for a Concubine
Sequel
to My Splendid Concubine
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ISBN: 978-0-9819553-1-5 Price: $15.95 Publisher: Three Clover Press Date of Release: January 2010 Page count: 291
Will be available through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and others. Includes traditional wholesale discounts and a return policy.
2009 national publicity for Our Hart & My Splendid Concubine organized by American Marketing Experts, Inc.
Publicity Contact: Penny C. Sansevieri
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Our Hart, Elegy for a Concubine continues the love story that Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. The Ch'ing Dynasty called him Our Hart. He arrived in China in 1854. By 1908, he was the godfather of China's modernization and the only foreigner the emperor trusted. Praise for My Splendid Concubine 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." “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 ...” "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 destruction and painful birth." Early Praise for Our Hart, Elegy for a Concubine Honorable Mention in General Fiction
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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. My Splendid Concubine won honorable mentions at the 2008 London Book Festival, 2009 San Francisco Book Festival, and the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival.
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