The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
by Jane Smiley | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0006551238 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0006551238 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by servalan from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, September 11, 2004
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An American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres. Lidie Newton is an extraordinary female protagonist, a genuine Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isabel Archer. Lidie and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's heartland in the middle of the last century. Together with their family and friends, they find themselves caught amidst two great American forces. Vicious arguments about freeing slaves, political shenanigans and peacocking encounters over claims to land are about to erupt into the bloodiest war the world has yet see-the American Civil War. Against this chaotic background,The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton soars across the vista of the birth of the modern United States of America. This classic American novel shows, through the eyes of one remarkable woman, how shattering, tragic and resilient the history of that land is.
An American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres. Lidie Newton is an extraordinary female protagonist, a genuine Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isabel Archer. Lidie and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's heartland in the middle of the last century. Together with their family and friends, they find themselves caught amidst two great American forces. Vicious arguments about freeing slaves, political shenanigans and peacocking encounters over claims to land are about to erupt into the bloodiest war the world has yet see-the American Civil War. Against this chaotic background,The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton soars across the vista of the birth of the modern United States of America. This classic American novel shows, through the eyes of one remarkable woman, how shattering, tragic and resilient the history of that land is.
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