City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Land of the Afternoon Sun follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move west to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s, when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It's a saga about ambition on both large and small scales and the rapidly modernising world as the harsh, sun-drenched landscape transforms from a Native American haven to the playground of Hollywood's rich and famous. Land of the Afternoon Sun is also the story of a woman finding her own personality and strength in the West against a breathtaking desert landscape that changes constantly and shows its deadly side in poisonous snakes, flash floods and sandstorms, with dramatic moments of forbidden romance, reversals, treachery, betrayal and, ultimately, triumphs.

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Land of the Afternoon Sun