Gilded Mountain: A Novel
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This "stellar read" (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father's employers in early 1900s Colorado.
In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming "Countess" Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts' lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.
Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie decides to act.
Drawn from true stories of Colorado history, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants, and is a story imbued with longing—for self-expression and equality, freedom and adventure.
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Kate Manning. (2022). Gilded Mountain: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kate Manning. 2022. Gilded Mountain: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.
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MLA Citation (style guide)Kate Manning. Gilded Mountain: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022.
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- "Immersive...awe-inspiring." —The New York Times "An epic story of love, hope, and perseverance." — #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline
This "stellar read" (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father's employers in early 1900s Colorado.
In a voice infused with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming "Countess" Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts' lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie.
Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper—a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice—is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie decides to act.
Drawn from true stories of Colorado history, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants, and is a story imbued with longing—for self-expression and equality, freedom and adventure. - reviews
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Starred review from September 5, 2022
Manning (My Notorious Life) sets this stellar coming-of-age novel in early 20th-century Moonstone, Colo., where a young woman gets a firsthand look at the machinations behind an exploitive mining company and its workers’ efforts to unionize. Sixteen-year-old Sylvie Pelletier’s quarryman father, Jacques, works in the dangerous high-altitude marble mines owned by industrialist Jerome Padgett. Jacques and union representative George Lonahan want to organize the miners, efforts the company fights with various forms of intimidation that escalate to hiring violent Pinkerton thugs, while Padgett’s wife, Inge, hopes to pacify the workers with company-owned libraries and schools. Sylvie leaves her job at the local newspaper and moves into the Padgetts’ luxurious manor for a higher-paying role as Inge’s live-in secretary in summer 1907. There she meets the Gradys, a Black couple whose complex ties to the Padgett family are later revealed, and falls in love with Padgett’s son, Jace, from a previous marriage. The hard-drinking and idealistic Jace seems to return Sylvie’s feelings but departs for college at the end of summer without saying goodbye. Sylvie returns to the newspaper, whose fearless female owner’s reporting on injustices at the mine inspires Sylvie to become a reporter. Meanwhile, winter salary stoppages and a death at the mine rekindle the drive toward unionization as Sylvie grows attracted to Lonahan. Sylvie’s vivid first-person narration captures her own maturing perceptions and the complex personalities of the major characters as well as supporting players including activist Mary “Mother” Jones. Manning shines at giving the era’s class, racial, and economic tensions a human face. This is one to savor. Agent: Sarah Burnes, Gernert Company.
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In 1907, 17-year-old Sylvie Pelletier and her family join her hard-working father at a marble quarry in Moonstone, CO. The worksite is rough--long hours, unpaid labor, and unsafe working conditions. Mentored and hired by the local paper's progressive newspaper owner, Sylvie jumps at the chance, when offered, to escape her family's lifestyle and move to the mine owner's estate to serve as social secretary. Surrounded by wealth, Sylvie notices the gap between the poverty of the quarry townsfolk and the opulence of the manor. Pursued by both the boss's son and a union rabble-rouser, Sylvie might frustrate some with her naivete, yet readers will appreciate how Manning (My Notorious Life) follows her main character's maturation into middle age as a union leader and wife. Narrator Dawn Harvey enhances the text by expertly voicing many characters and accents, including French Canadian and Continental French. The male quarry workers are voiced distinctly, although the most noteworthy voice is Mother Jones's fierce Irish lilt. This production is free from technical errors, and the editing of Harvey voicing coughs and drunken slurred words is flawless. VERDICT Recommend to fans of historical fiction and worker's rights narratives.--Sarah Hill
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