2005, ISBN: 9781400063222

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

Paperback / softback. New. From Britney and Brangelina to Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson, Western society is obsessed with its American idols and gods of the red carpet. We worship thei… Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. From Britney and Brangelina to Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson, Western society is obsessed with its American idols and gods of the red carpet. We worship their triumphs, judge their sins, and maintain vigil at their deaths. This title examines the blurred boundary between popular culture and religion., 6, New York: Random House, 2005. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. George W. Ward (Map). [8], 366, [10] pages. Map. Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist sticker on front of DJ. Signed by author on the title page. Karen Fisher has lived in the West as a teacher, wrangler, farmer, and carpenter. In 2005 A Sudden Country was the Mountains and Plains Bookseller's Association choice for Best Fiction. A Sudden Country is set during the Oregon Migration of 1847 and is based, in part, on the reminiscences of the author's great-grandmother's grandmother, who crossed from Iowa to Oregon in that year. One source of inspiration was the author's own pioneer heritage. A second source of inspiration was the author's early and continuing fascination with explorers and exploration and with the "mountain men" of the west in particular. It started with the discovery of a biography of Jim Bridger when she was eight, and led, in high school, to a kind of displaced romantic affection for nineteenth century explorers in general, which grew into a more serious interest in college. The third source of inspiration was while growing up, she had been handed the golden story of "How the West was Won," in which the pioneers and explorers and cowboys she identified with and adored were heroic and unimpeachable. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson's Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. Yet his life is overturned when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell. Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. She persuades her husband to employ him. 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 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., Random House, 2005, 3<

2005, ISBN: 9781400063222

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York: Random House, 2005. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. George W. Ward (Map). [8], 366, [10] pages. Map. Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist sticker on front of DJ. Si… Mehr…

New York: Random House, 2005. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. George W. Ward (Map). [8], 366, [10] pages. Map. Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist sticker on front of DJ. Signed by author on the title page. Karen Fisher has lived in the West as a teacher, wrangler, farmer, and carpenter. In 2005 A Sudden Country was the Mountains and Plains Bookseller's Association choice for Best Fiction. A Sudden Country is set during the Oregon Migration of 1847 and is based, in part, on the reminiscences of the author's great-grandmother's grandmother, who crossed from Iowa to Oregon in that year. One source of inspiration was the author's own pioneer heritage. A second source of inspiration was the author's early and continuing fascination with explorers and exploration and with the "mountain men" of the west in particular. It started with the discovery of a biography of Jim Bridger when she was eight, and led, in high school, to a kind of displaced romantic affection for nineteenth century explorers in general, which grew into a more serious interest in college. The third source of inspiration was while growing up, she had been handed the golden story of "How the West was Won," in which the pioneers and explorers and cowboys she identified with and adored were heroic and unimpeachable. A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson's Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the Bitterroot wilderness. Yet his life is overturned when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell. Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant, is drawn at once to the self-possessed MacLaren. She persuades her husband to employ him. 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 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., Random House, 2005, 3<