Zimmerman (The Orphanmaster) keeps the truth hidden until the end, combining suspense with an unsettling look into a tormented mind. Hugo's parents decide to civilize the girl, and introduce her into society on their return to New York. In Virginia City, Nev., he becomes fascinated with a sideshow freak, the so-called Savage Girl, allegedly raised by wolves. But that doesn’t mean the book doesn’t rank some standing in O The Oprah Magazine. Hugo, a Harvard student recently released from a sanatorium, accompanies his family on a cross-country trip. Savage Girl O Mag Pick Savage Girlmight never be an Oprah Pick. On the night of May 19, 1876, 22-year-old Hugo Delegate awaits the arrival of the police at a house overlooking Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the site of a savage murder committed by either him or a "girl murderess." Hugo soon reveals that the victim, a "longtime acquaintance and sometime friend," is but the latest in a series, and after his arrest, he presents the complex backstory to his defense attorney.
If this is civilization, bring on the wolves.The prologue of Zimmerman's superior historical thriller will suck most readers in instantly. Wondrous sights Zimmerman rolls out for us…are all the more piquant whenīronwyn’s admires begin turning up, cut to ribbons, at almost every whistle This narrative-a love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable-is his confession. The tormented, self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. Zimmerman’s tale is narrated by the Delegate’s son, a Harvard anatomy student. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl’s illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered. Bronwyn hits the highly mannered world of Edith Wharton–era Manhattan like a bomb. The last Philipse to live there, Mary Philipse Morris-the It-girl of.
A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan’s Gilded Age society Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society. She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty by Jean Zimmerman.
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