Title
Enemy of the Average,Used
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Product Description Hanna Mazurka was the Enemy of the Average. Born Zdenka Oleska on a poor Polish farm, she was one of the most astonishing women of her time. She left home as a disgruntled teenager, unsophisticated and minimally educated. With her stunning beauty, ambition and cunning she grew to marry and control six of the world's richest, most accomplished men. Aristocrat, lover, ersatz opera diva, adulterer, enigma and creator of a world class eclectic garden, Hanna Mazurka's life was one of opulence, spectacle and heartbreaks. An extraordinary novel spanning more than a century, Enemy of the Average abounds with magnetic and memorable characters. From Publishers Weekly With several major literary influences (the Brothers Grimm topping the list), this awkward saga chronicles the rise of Zdenka Oleska, a preternaturally beautiful, selfish Polish peasant (based on an unidentified historical figure) who grows up in the years before WWI to marry into everincreasing pots of not quite credible wealth provided by not quite credibly smitten men. Grandly conceived by firstnovelist Nicol on the model of a sixact opera, with few concessions made to realism, this roman a clef throws pacing to the winds, concetrating on the first 20 years of its Bovaryesque heroine's long life. By the time this woman reaches early middle age (having left Poland for St. Petersburg, then Switzerland, Paris, New York, Chicago and Paris again, and having made several million earlycentury dollars in the process), Nicol seems to lose the will to follow her further. Zdenka's last 40 years are covered in several dozen pages before her life is patly resolved in the form of a briefly mentioned, soulsoothing new devotion to gardening. With its unwieldy length and lack of focus, the novel is finally too sloppily executed to find wide appeal. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review As a motionpicture story editor, one always hopes to find a multifaceted novel with startling visual elements that lend itself naturally to film. This is it! Hannah Mazurka's beauty and charm take her from a...Polish farm....Paris, New York, Chicago and Santa Barbara with her stunning jewels, outrageous fashion sense and finally her eclectic garden which she leaves to the public as her legacy. A scandalous rags to riches tale!Giulio Anfuso, former story editor, 20th Century fox, CBS Television From the Publisher Reading guides are available for this title. In it includes an interview with Margaret Nicol, synopsis of the book, reading group questions and more. email bookinfo@knollpublishers.com. About the Author Margaret Nicol is an opera buff and an avid gardener. She has limited herself to one husband. They live in the hills of Santa Barbara, California in an empty nest.
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