Name: Enemy Women von Paulette Jiles
SKU: 9780007291847
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Enemy Women Zusammenfassung

Enemy Women Paulette Jiles

A gritty, memorable book ... it is a delight from start to finish, without a single misstep. Tracy Chevalier

Missouri, 1865. Adair Colley and her family have managed to hide from the bloody Armageddon of the American Civil War, but finally even their remote mountain farm cannot escape the plundering greed of the Union militia. Her house is burnt, her father beaten and dragged away. With fierce determination, Adair sets out after him on foot. So begins an extraordinary voyage which will see Adair herself denounced as a Confederate spy and thrown in jail. Here she falls passionately in love with her Union interrogator, who helps her escape. Braving uncounted dangers with wit, ingenuity, and an outrageous courage, she struggles to return home, to reunite her family, and - against all odds - to find her love again, this time as a free woman.

With cinematic sweep and a galloping pace, 'Enemy Women' introduces readers to the most memorable heroine of many years.

Enemy Women Bewertungen

A Sunday Times Read of the Week and Glamour's 'Must Read'

'I loved Enemy Women. It is a gritty, memorable book, full of the things I like best in a novel - a sparky heroine, an unsentimental love story, a confident retelling of the past. It is a delight from start to finish, without a single misstep.' Tracy Chevalier

'With the eye of a poet and the rectitude of a historian, Paulette Jiles travels the backroads of the American Civil War and returns with a story that is both gripping and gorgeously rendered. Adair is destined to find a place of honour among the great heroines of modern fiction'. Geraldine Brooks, author of 'Year of Wonders'.

'Remarkable...entirely deserving of the plaudits it will doubtless continue to receive here. Jiles isn't content with merely telling us something we know already, but sets out to show us what this means, in images of startling beauty and horror.' The Times

'Although Enemy Women is rich in historical research, it is partly Adair's unexpected modernity that makes it so compelling, as she battles her way through war with sharp rejoinders and a waspish wit, by turns fierce, wily and pragmatic ... Jiles's epically plotted novel moves to a beat as irresistibly vernacular as its heroine's 'confession'.' Observer

Über Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks. A critically acclaimed poet, she is a past winner of the Canadian Governor General Award, Canada's highest literary honour. She lives with her husband in San Antonio, Texas. She has written several novels of which 'Enemy Women' is the most recent.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR006458742

ISBN 13

9780007291847

ISBN 10

0007291841

Titel

Enemy Women Paulette Jiles

Autor

Paulette Jiles

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

HarperCollins Publishers

Datum

20080701

Anzahl der Seiten

318

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N/A

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