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[Karen Fisher] Ü A Sudden Country: A Novel Ú Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. A Sudden Country: A Novel WASHINGTON POST review closest to the mark M. Layton I had purchased this book about a year and a half ago, but when I found out recently that it was at least partially based on the reminiscences of Emma Ross Slavin, I moved it to the top of my reading list. As the descendant of Emma Ross Slavin's real mother's (not Lucy Mitchell) sister, I was very interested to read this book, and in the account of what traveling the Oregon Trail must have been like for women and families, A SUDDEN COUNTRY com
| Title | : | A Sudden Country: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812973437 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
As their hidden stories and obsessions unfold, and pasts and cultures collide, both Lucy and MacLaren must confront the people they have truly been, are, and may become.Alive with incident and insight, presenting with rare scope and intimacy the complex relations among nineteenth-century traders, immigrants, and Native Americans, A Sudden Country is, above all, a heroic and unforgettable story of love and loss, sacrifice and understanding.From the Hardcover edition.. Yet his life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family.Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. Convinced that he is the key to her famil
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. She reveals the labor of running a household when there is no house; equally well, she shows us mountains of death and splendor. In the collision between household and wilderness, Fisher brilliantly illuminates both the tragedy and the new life wrought by manifest destiny. When McLaren loses his children to smallpox and his Nez Perce wife to another trapper, he tracks the trapper to Lucy Mitchell's wagon train. This is a great novel of the American West. Fisher tells their storires, past and present, with a poet's sense of the sound and heft of each word. Emma's mother, Lucy Mitchell, is a widow, remarried despite her grief for her first husband and resenting the decision of her second husband, Israel Mitch
WASHINGTON POST review closest to the mark M. Layton I had purchased this book about a year and a half ago, but when I found out recently that it was at least partially based on the reminiscences of Emma Ross Slavin, I moved it to the top of my reading list. As the descendant of Emma Ross Slavin's real mother's (not Lucy Mitchell) sister, I was very interested to read this book, and in the account of what traveling the Oregon Trail must have been like for women and families, A SUDDEN COUNTRY comes closest to succeeding because those passages are fairly straightforward in both telling and in plot. On the other hand, the passages devoted to the story of Jam. Not my cup of tea High Tech Grandma I was interested in the setting but the telling was a bit pedantic and did not fire my imagination.. Most confusing book I've ever read, 2 concurrent stories tangled Patricia M. Garner There are 2 stories running concurrently here and I found it very confusing to jump back and forth, plus the writing style is not to my liking. I purchased this book without reading an excerpt so plowed through it, as I'd paid full price for it, but it was a chore. It sounded better in the synopsis than it actually was, even though it is based on a true story.
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