The Glass Harmonica, A Sensualist's Tale
Dorothee Kocks steals intimate details from American history to craft a novel of sensuality, ecstasy and music that reads at the pace of a thriller. Young Chjara Vallé is exiled from Corsica – sold as a servant to an opium addict in Paris. Music paves the way for her to flee with Henry, her love, to post-revolutionary America. There the new freedoms and Puritan vigor compete for ascendancy. Chjara woos and scandalizes in equal measure with her playing of Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica, while Henry hides his trade in erotica and forbidden books. Secrets gather and the charge between the lovers weakens as the crowds begin to call for the family’s blood. Rooted in historical fact, this debut novel by a gifted international storyteller takes you into a passionate world full of dangerous ideas and dangerous men – it is a world you’ll not want to leave.

Readers can learn more about the world behind the novel with Kocks's most recent book, the non-fiction Such Were My Temptations: Bawdy Americans, 1760-1830. A museum in a nutshell, a history in a few words, this rich-media ebook takes readers into the surprising, secret world of America's first sexual revolution. See art from rare-books archives that will forever change your sense of "Puritanical" New England. Learn how the founding fathers--and mothers--rewrote society’s rules, even in their bedrooms. Join a conversation with historians and sexologists. An exhibit, a story, a salon--you've never seen anything like it. Note: While in a scholarly context, the images are explicit enough to be for mature audiences only. Coming soon for Nook, it can be read on other tablets and on your computer. Visit Dorothee's website, BewareTheTimidLife.com to learn more.

The Glass Harmonica originally was published in New Zealand by Rosa Mira, exceptional ebooks.

‘Bawdy, geographically vast, heroic, and sensual indeed.’ Sterling Watson, author of ‘Fighting in the Shade’
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The Glass Harmonica, A Sensualist's Tale
Dorothee Kocks steals intimate details from American history to craft a novel of sensuality, ecstasy and music that reads at the pace of a thriller. Young Chjara Vallé is exiled from Corsica – sold as a servant to an opium addict in Paris. Music paves the way for her to flee with Henry, her love, to post-revolutionary America. There the new freedoms and Puritan vigor compete for ascendancy. Chjara woos and scandalizes in equal measure with her playing of Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica, while Henry hides his trade in erotica and forbidden books. Secrets gather and the charge between the lovers weakens as the crowds begin to call for the family’s blood. Rooted in historical fact, this debut novel by a gifted international storyteller takes you into a passionate world full of dangerous ideas and dangerous men – it is a world you’ll not want to leave.

Readers can learn more about the world behind the novel with Kocks's most recent book, the non-fiction Such Were My Temptations: Bawdy Americans, 1760-1830. A museum in a nutshell, a history in a few words, this rich-media ebook takes readers into the surprising, secret world of America's first sexual revolution. See art from rare-books archives that will forever change your sense of "Puritanical" New England. Learn how the founding fathers--and mothers--rewrote society’s rules, even in their bedrooms. Join a conversation with historians and sexologists. An exhibit, a story, a salon--you've never seen anything like it. Note: While in a scholarly context, the images are explicit enough to be for mature audiences only. Coming soon for Nook, it can be read on other tablets and on your computer. Visit Dorothee's website, BewareTheTimidLife.com to learn more.

The Glass Harmonica originally was published in New Zealand by Rosa Mira, exceptional ebooks.

‘Bawdy, geographically vast, heroic, and sensual indeed.’ Sterling Watson, author of ‘Fighting in the Shade’
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The Glass Harmonica, A Sensualist's Tale

The Glass Harmonica, A Sensualist's Tale

by Dorothee Kocks
The Glass Harmonica, A Sensualist's Tale

The Glass Harmonica, A Sensualist's Tale

by Dorothee Kocks

Overview

Dorothee Kocks steals intimate details from American history to craft a novel of sensuality, ecstasy and music that reads at the pace of a thriller. Young Chjara Vallé is exiled from Corsica – sold as a servant to an opium addict in Paris. Music paves the way for her to flee with Henry, her love, to post-revolutionary America. There the new freedoms and Puritan vigor compete for ascendancy. Chjara woos and scandalizes in equal measure with her playing of Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica, while Henry hides his trade in erotica and forbidden books. Secrets gather and the charge between the lovers weakens as the crowds begin to call for the family’s blood. Rooted in historical fact, this debut novel by a gifted international storyteller takes you into a passionate world full of dangerous ideas and dangerous men – it is a world you’ll not want to leave.

Readers can learn more about the world behind the novel with Kocks's most recent book, the non-fiction Such Were My Temptations: Bawdy Americans, 1760-1830. A museum in a nutshell, a history in a few words, this rich-media ebook takes readers into the surprising, secret world of America's first sexual revolution. See art from rare-books archives that will forever change your sense of "Puritanical" New England. Learn how the founding fathers--and mothers--rewrote society’s rules, even in their bedrooms. Join a conversation with historians and sexologists. An exhibit, a story, a salon--you've never seen anything like it. Note: While in a scholarly context, the images are explicit enough to be for mature audiences only. Coming soon for Nook, it can be read on other tablets and on your computer. Visit Dorothee's website, BewareTheTimidLife.com to learn more.

The Glass Harmonica originally was published in New Zealand by Rosa Mira, exceptional ebooks.

‘Bawdy, geographically vast, heroic, and sensual indeed.’ Sterling Watson, author of ‘Fighting in the Shade’

Product Details

BN ID: 2940016250205
Publisher: Beware The Timid Life
Publication date: 01/11/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 506 KB

About the Author

Dorothee Kocks is the author of three books, the historical novel The Glass Harmonica: A Sensualist's Tale; the enhanced ebook Such Were My Temptations, Bawdy Americans 1760-1830, and the nonfiction Dream a Little. For half her life, she took a traditional academic path. She earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown University, wrote a well-respected scholarly book, and climbed the tenure ladder at the University of Utah.

Then she picked up an accordion for the first time. Music inspired a life change that entailed traveling the world in search of old instruments, funded by various day jobs including a stint as a kitchen hand in Alaska. Dorothee's writing has been called "rich" and "evocative." Reviewers praised The Glass Harmonica as an "unforgettable saga" that "perfectly combines the novelist's and historian's skills."

Like the characters in her novel, Dorothee has led something of an itinerant life. Born in Germany, she now lives at the foot of the Wasatch Range in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she worked as an assistant professor of U.S. history at the University of Utah and for a leading online university.
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