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 ...
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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: a to cart. $2.90, very good condition, Sold by Book Lover's Warehouse rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Watauga, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Knopf Canada.
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As New in As New jacket. First printing. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Fiction, sale.
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Like New in Fine jacket. The dustjacket is in Near Fine condition. "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" come the memoirs of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, who marries an abolitionist from New England and settles in Kansas in 1855. When her husband is murdered, Lidie vanishes into Missouri to find his killers".
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Very Good in Good jacket. First edition stated. Hardbound book in very good condition throughout, with crisp clean pages in clean sharp-cornered boards. Dust jacket in mylar has light shelfwear to edges and a 1" closed tear to rear upper leading edge corner, but is otherwise clean and crisp.
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Illustrated by Author Photo Inner Dj Flap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 6x9" VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S26.00) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright; Gold title on red spine strip, black hard covers. White endpapers...; 452pg pages; Novel set in 1850's. Bloody Kansas; . abolitionist spy in slave territory. Woman Heroine. "FIRST EDITION" Stated..
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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?
