On Leaving Charleston [Mass Market Paperback]

Alexandra Ripley (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Dell (February 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440166101
• ISBN-13: 978-0440166108
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,064,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Dramatic Whirlwind!, December 27, 2000

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"lmarmarmar" - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Leaving Charleston (Mass Market Paperback)

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have more money than you knew what to do with and you thought that the idea sounded incredibly satisfying, then you should read this fast-paced, eventful novel. You just might change your mind. This novel follows the life of a Charleston debutante who began her life in rags and eventually fell into riches by marrying one of America's most eligible bachelors. Travel with lovable, naive Garden Tradd from her dirt poor beginnings in a slave settlement, through her adolescence in Charleston when she becomes a true belle, and then onto to New York, London, and Paris for a wild, sometimes disturbing ride through the early twenty-first century. I guarantee you won't be able to put this book down!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not another Better, March 15, 2006

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Rachel M. Mast "rachelmast" (PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Leaving Charleston (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read many books based on the south, including Gone with the Wind (3 times). On leaving Charleston (read twice) is one of the best books that I have read. Another is the prequel to this one called 'Charleson'; if you haven't read ON LEAVING CHARELSTON yet, you should definatey read the first one, well, first. The characters are so real that in some part I feel like they are real people. I would highly recommend this book to everyone.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great sequeal to Charleston, April 8, 2000

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Jennifer Turner - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Leaving Charleston (Mass Market Paperback)

This book takes place a few years after Charleston, it concerns an "ugly", unwanted girl named Garden Tradd and her life and times. This book incoporates real life history into the novel, Garden watches Chalres Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, see Isadora Duncan die, and weeps over the death of the LIndbergh baby. My only complaint is that Elizabeth Cooper who was a strong voice in the novel charleston is reduced to doing nothing but holding Garden's hand evrytime she cries.