Savage Lands by Clare Clark
Praised by Hilary Mantel, Amanda Foreman, and the New York Times Book Review for her verve and intelligence . . . and] the originality of her imagination, Clare Clark has become a rising star in historical fiction. Elisabeth is among twenty-three girls who set sail from France for the new colony of Louisiana to be married to strangers. Although she has little hope for happiness in her new life, she finds herself passionately in love with her new husband, Jean-Claude, a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier. But betrayal is as much a part of the new world as the old, and when Elisabeth finds herself deceived by her husband she also finds herself bound to a poor cabin boy in a way she never anticipated. Clark creates a world that is both incredibly real and incredibly dazzling. And with the same compelling prose and vividly realized characters that won her widespread acclaim for The Great Stink and The Nature of Monsters, she takes us deep into the heart of colonial French Louisiana.CLARE CLARK is the author of four books, including The Great Stink, which was selected a Washington Post Best Novel of the Year and was long-listed for the Orange Award, and Savage Lands, which was also long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her work has been published in five different languages. She is based in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780151014736 |
| ISBN 10 | 0151014736 |
| Title | Savage Lands |
| Author | Clare Clark |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2010-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 406 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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