An American classic from the author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres. * The kind of book today's novel readers dream of - that elusive, seemingly impossible thing: a totally fresh, literary, accessible, involving modern twentieth-century nineteenth-century epic * There is no American author - male or female - that combines commercial and critical success to the degree that Jane Smiley does. If she were a man, that fact would be rather better known (boasted about?) than it currently is. * In Lidie Newton, ...
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An American classic from the author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres. * The kind of book today's novel readers dream of - that elusive, seemingly impossible thing: a totally fresh, literary, accessible, involving modern twentieth-century nineteenth-century epic * There is no American author - male or female - that combines commercial and critical success to the degree that Jane Smiley does. If she were a man, that fact would be rather better known (boasted about?) than it currently is. * In Lidie Newton, Jane has created an extraordinary female protagonist, with whom her reader sympathizes utterly and roots for vigorously - she's a genuinely Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isobel Archer or Rabbit Angstrom * Smiley takes us to the faultline in the middle of America in the middle of the last century, and shows us how so much of its successes and failures since then were born in those tense, terrifying times * South vs North; Confederacy vs Union; pro-slavers vs abolitionists; puritans vs hedonists; and women vs men - all the great American conflicts are here; all the great fissures that erupted into the worst war the world had then ever seen, the American Civil War
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Add this copy of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton to cart. $16.20, very good condition, Sold by Marlowes Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferny Hills, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 1998 by Flamingo.
Add this copy of The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton to cart. $32.09, very good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1999 by Flamingo.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
It started with promise, but seemed to go nowhere. Too wordy, not enough action to keep my interest. I didn't finish it. I've not read any of the author's other works -- perhaps this was not the best work to start with?
