The Avalanche

Description

Price Ruyler has been hurled to San Francisco from New York to save the family company after the earthquake in 1906. His productivity makes him among the city’s highly qualified bachelors but he defies the maneuvers of the resident ladies including their mothers. Then he bumps into the lovely and attractive Helene. He proposes marriage in a week. In their fourth year of marriage, he comprehends something has become different. He still has feelings for his wife and he thinks she loves him but he starts to contemplate about her secretive past and asks whether family mysteries were hidden in the ruins left by the earthquake.

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was a distinguished and successful American writer. A number of her stories are situated in her residence state of California. Her most famous Black Oxen was rendered into a silent film of the same title. She also penned short literature, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on many subjects such as feminism, politics, and war. She was determined, free-minded, and at times provocative.

Gertrude Franklin Horn was born in San Francisco, California, to Thomas Ludovich Horn and his wife, the previous Gertrude Franklin. Her parents divorced when she was at an early age of 2, and she was taken cared by her mother’s grandfather, Stephen Franklin, a pious Presbyterian and a relative of Benjamin Franklin. Grandfather Franklin persevered she be educated, and this shaped her immensely. She studied at St. Mary’s Hall high school in Benicia, California, and, shortly at the Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky.

Gertrude’s first novel was The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance, episodic in The Argonaut using the fictional name Asmodeus. When she opened to her family that she was the writer, it made her to be detested. She then moved to New York, sending off Muriel with her grandmother.
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