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Dester Granville
Dark Desires
Driven by ambition, hope, and greed, they came to a newborn territory on the Mississippi!
Dester Granville--tall, magnetic, aggressive--had a soaring dream: to create the richest plantation in Louisiana and found the proudest dynasty.
His adored young wife, Zelma, was a blue-eyed, auburn-haired Savannah beauty. Only unending love for her bold, handsome husband brought her - reluctantly - to the new frontier to face the bitter hatred of envious neighbors, the violence of secret lust, the cruel hurt of betrayal and death.
Parisian-born owner of a New Orleans brothel, Madame Celine developed a sheltering friendship with the naïve Zelma - and then shattered her innocence forever.
The beautiful, bronze-skinned mulatto slave Pierrot was Madame Celine's sensuous pet. He was a mute, but she knew enough endearing words for both of them.
Mathilda, a dark, sassy, passionate young slave, lusted helplessly for her white master - until one night when she went to him, naked, in the woods.
Dester Granville--tall, magnetic, aggressive--had a soaring dream: to create the richest plantation in Louisiana and found the proudest dynasty.
His adored young wife, Zelma, was a blue-eyed, auburn-haired Savannah beauty. Only unending love for her bold, handsome husband brought her - reluctantly - to the new frontier to face the bitter hatred of envious neighbors, the violence of secret lust, the cruel hurt of betrayal and death.
Parisian-born owner of a New Orleans brothel, Madame Celine developed a sheltering friendship with the naïve Zelma - and then shattered her innocence forever.
The beautiful, bronze-skinned mulatto slave Pierrot was Madame Celine's sensuous pet. He was a mute, but she knew enough endearing words for both of them.
Mathilda, a dark, sassy, passionate young slave, lusted helplessly for her white master - until one night when she went to him, naked, in the woods.
- GenresSouthern
312 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1976
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Parley J. Cooper
25 books7 followersParley Cooper is the author of over twenty-four novels, including the bestseller Dark Desires. He also writes under the bylines Jack Mayfield, Alex Nebrensky, William Freytag, and Dorothy McKinney.
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January 28, 2016
This is my first review of any English book on Goodreads so forgive me if there are errors in this review.
I found this book on the corner of an old book store and it was quite abandoned and i didn't think its former owner even tried to read it so out of curiosity i picked it up and read the title "Dark Desires" so i thought ok judging from the picture and cover its pretty much like gone with the wind , a spoiled girl living in a farm and eventually learns to accept growing up and maturing to a woman!
But i was wrong! this book amazed me page by page in a way that i couldn't handle it at some points.
Its about dream of a man to grow sugar cane in a big field far from his hometown and a wife who could not understand her husband's dream but eventually she embrace it and adapts herself to the situation and along the way the reader experience the pain of people who lived in united states about 250 years ago and the dangers and hardships they had to face to live. Its a story about history from ordinary people's point of view and yet it manages to give you a jolt of joy and sadness every now and then.
I rarely cry over a book , i cried for bunch of movies like love story but this book made me tremble and shed some tears over death of the characters that i knew and i loved. Having the experience of playing Red Dead redemption ! i could visualize the kind of city and people the writer pictured before my eyes and it was astonishing.
Characters are totally believable and relatable and as you read you find more layers added to them and although some of you might criticize me for overrating the material i think it has great characters.
Moral result of this review is never underestimate dusty old books at the corner of the book shops they might surprise you quite well! I'm glad i found this book out of the blue :)
I found this book on the corner of an old book store and it was quite abandoned and i didn't think its former owner even tried to read it so out of curiosity i picked it up and read the title "Dark Desires" so i thought ok judging from the picture and cover its pretty much like gone with the wind , a spoiled girl living in a farm and eventually learns to accept growing up and maturing to a woman!
But i was wrong! this book amazed me page by page in a way that i couldn't handle it at some points.
Its about dream of a man to grow sugar cane in a big field far from his hometown and a wife who could not understand her husband's dream but eventually she embrace it and adapts herself to the situation and along the way the reader experience the pain of people who lived in united states about 250 years ago and the dangers and hardships they had to face to live. Its a story about history from ordinary people's point of view and yet it manages to give you a jolt of joy and sadness every now and then.
I rarely cry over a book , i cried for bunch of movies like love story but this book made me tremble and shed some tears over death of the characters that i knew and i loved. Having the experience of playing Red Dead redemption ! i could visualize the kind of city and people the writer pictured before my eyes and it was astonishing.
Characters are totally believable and relatable and as you read you find more layers added to them and although some of you might criticize me for overrating the material i think it has great characters.
Moral result of this review is never underestimate dusty old books at the corner of the book shops they might surprise you quite well! I'm glad i found this book out of the blue :)
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