The Turquoise

First published in 1946 <strong>The Turquoise</strong> was the great historical novelist AnyaSetons third novel and sold close to a million copies. It is the st... » 

First published in 1946 The Turquoise was the great historical novelist AnyaSetons third novel and sold close to a million copies. It is the story of abeautiful gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexicofor the piratical opulent gaslit New York of the 1870sonly to end hersearch for happiness back in the high thin air of Santa Fe. Santa Fe Cameronnamed for the place of her birth was the child of a Spanish mother and aScotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic perceptivity.Natanay an American Indian saw this and gave the little orphan a turquoiseamulet as a keepsake this turquoise the Indian symbol of the spiritdominates her life. For Santa Fe Cameron life is made up of violent contraststhe rough wagon of the gay young Irish medicine vendor who brings her East andthe scented hansom cabs and carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenuemansion the glittering world of the Astors and a dreary cell in the Tombs. Allthe color excitement and rich period detail which distinguish Anya Setonsnovels are here together with one of her most unusual heroines. «