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EliseKen Grimwood

Elise

1979256 pages
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Elise is a sweeping, cinematically paced suspense story that follows its heroine through the passions and terrors of mankind's most elusive dream: physical immortality. Elise Travers is a beautiful and sophisticated Boston hostess, whose husband, Patrick, is a wealthy young entrepreneur; but this widely envied couple is bound by one dark secret: their knowledge that, unless a medical miracle can somehow be arranged, Patrick will gradually age and die, while his wife will remain eternally young. For Elise's life began three hundred years before, at the Palace of Versailles during Louis XIV’s…

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2 editions
  • Paperback · English
    Ballantine Books · 9780345290366
  • Other · English · 1979
    Doubleday · 256 pages · 9780385136310
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