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The Scent of the Roses

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (hardback)

Followed by
  
The Windfall

Author
  
Aleen Leslie

Publisher
  
Viking Press

OCLC
  
1287366

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Publication date
  
1963

Pages
  
239 pp

Originally published
  
1963

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
United States of America

The Scent of the Roses is a novel by the American writer Aleen Leslie.

The title comes from a line of a poem by Thomas Moore: "You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

Set in 1908 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this nostalgic novel is the recollection of a year in the life of Jane Carlyle. At age ten she enters the threshold of a large house in Squirrel Hill and meets the Weber family, owners of a department store in the adjacent booming steel town of Braddock, and soon Jane is swept up into the exciting and sometimes eccentric happenings of the Weber household. This is the debut novel of Aleen Leslie, a native Pittsburgher best known for her Hollywood screenwriting credits.

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