Acclaimed author Sheila Kohler's sweeping historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness, is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat. Wrenched from the court of Marie Antoinette by the Reign of Terror, the brave and resilient Lucy escapes with her family to the freedom and hardships of a newly independent America where, on a dairy farm in the Hudson Valley, she discovers a new life-and her true self.
- ISBN10 1590512626
- ISBN13 9781590512623
- Publish Date 1 April 2007
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Other Press LLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English