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Highlights
- About the Author: Deborah Larsen grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and currently lives with her husband in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 240 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical
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About the Book
In this brilliant historical novel, Larsen deftly reimagines the extraordinary true story of a young woman in colonial America who is captured by a Shawnee raiding party and who never rejoins white society.Review Quotes
"[R]iveting . . .lyrical. . . . [A]n indelible portrait of a remarkable woman. . . . [A] brutal and beautiful novel." -New York Times
"[B] oth a stirring adventure tale. . .and a lyrical meditation on one woman's coming of age. . . .Larsen's perfect prose captures both the brutality and unexpected beauty of Mary's life. . . . For all its frontier romance . . . a stubbornly unvarnished tale."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Hypnotic . . . rich and rewarding. . . . Other writers have tried this before, but [none] so gracefully and at the same time so forcefully. Here is the old world of the New World, both a dream and our shared history, for our reading pleasure and our thoughtful consideration of what we all have lost and gained." -- San Francisco Chronicle "[A] lyrical excursion on a deep historical sea....Beneath the smooth beauty of its descriptive language, there is...terrific concision and lightness." -The New York Times Book Review "[C]urious and fascinating . . . a saga of hardship and casual tragedy with brilliant moments of joy."--The Washington Post Book World "Illuminated by a wonderful sense of detail and natural rhythm, of landscape, body, and the shifts and changes of time."-Minneapolis Star Tribune "There is a wealth of life in this spare novel. At times the short sentences and spare language can feel light and ephemeral, but the weight of the writing is hidden in such brevity. The shards of images sink in to wash to the surface long after the last page is read."-The Oregonian
"An accomplished first novel. . .Larsen handles. . .complex emotions and her dueling desires with sublety, and her elegant prose vividly brings Mary's world and thoughts to life."-Booklist
"A brave. . .stark, snowdeep novel."-Austin-American Statesman "Being American is to wear a coat of many colors. . .Larsen's novel is an instructive, winning reminder that the coat was once woven from broadcloth and buckskin, feathers and silk, in a fabric as hard to unravel as it is to deny."-Daily News
About the Author
Deborah Larsen grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and currently lives with her husband in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Her collection of poetry, Stitching Porcelain, was published in 1991, and her poems and short stories have appeared in The Nation, The Yale Review, The Quarterly, Oxford Magazine, and The New Yorker, among other publications. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Yale. She teaches creative writing at Gettysburg College, where she holds the Merle S. Boyer Chair.Dimensions (Overall): 8.04 Inches (H) x 5.28 Inches (W) x .67 Inches (D)
Weight: .56 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Deborah Larsen
Language: English
Street Date: September 9, 2003
TCIN: 1005995057
UPC: 9780375712890
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-3920
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.56 pounds
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