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Smiley - THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON - 1st - SIGNED
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Located in: Fishers, Indiana, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Subject
- Literature, Modern
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780679450740
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679450742
ISBN-13
9780679450740
eBay Product ID (ePID)
809988
Product Key Features
Book Title
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-049469
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller,A Thousand Acres,and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe,Moo,Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive--a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We see her at twenty, making a good marriage--to Thomas Newton, a steady, sweet-tempered Yankee who passes through her hometown on a dangerous mission. He belongs to a group of rashly brave New England abolitionists who dedicate themselves to settling the Kansas Territory with like-minded folk to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. Lidie packs up and goes with him. And the novel races alongside them into the Territory, into the maelstrom of "Bloody Kansas," where slaveholding Missourians constantly and viciously clash with Free Staters, where wandering youths kill you as soon as look at you--where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband as the young couple again and again barely escape entrapment in webs of atrocity on both sides of the great question. And when, suddenly, cold-blooded murder invades her own intimate circle, Lidie doesn't falter. She cuts off her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and rides into Missouri in search of the killers--a woman in a fiercely male world, an abolitionist spy in slave territory. On the run, her life threatened, her wits sharpened, she takes on yet another identity--and, in the very midst of her masquerade, discovers herself. Lidie grows increasingly important to us as we follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, this is Jane Smiley at her enthralling and enriching best.
LC Classification Number
PS3569.M39A79 1998b
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- r***6 (28)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent transaction! The ordered books were reasonable priced and fully match the description provided by the seller. Books are covered in a plastic transparant dustjacket. Shipment of the books was swift and in a sturdy parcel, in which the items were well wrapped in protective materials. Even though one of the delivered books was a different volume than the one ordered, the seller was prompt to come up with a satisfying solution. Thanks, great experience!Robert Silverberg (editor) - THE NEW ATLANTIS (Wolfe Leguin Tiptree) - Book Club (#134407132167)
- o***b (91)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI purchased two books from this seller and they combined the shipping. I was actually credited BACK part of the shipping savings. Books were exactly as described and with new Brodart dust jacket covers. Mint condition. Books were packaged with care and were well protected. Shipping time was expeditious and the seller’s communication with me was above and beyond. I highly recommend and will definitely be doing business with again. Thanks so much.Jeff Lindsay - DEXTER BY DESIGN - 1st/1st - BRITISH (#131758845924)
- j***6 (302)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood purchase, good seller. Tape and case in very good condition as described in listing. Item was carefully packed, shipped out promptly, and arrived quickly. Have purchased from this seller before. Would definitely recommend seller based on my positive experiences.
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- r***6 (28)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent transaction! The ordered books were reasonable priced and fully match the description provided by the seller. Books are covered in a plastic transparant dustjacket. Shipment of the books was swift and in a sturdy parcel, in which the items were well wrapped in protective materials. Even though one of the delivered books was a different volume than the one ordered, the seller was prompt to come up with a satisfying solution. Thanks, great experience!Robert Silverberg (editor) - THE NEW ATLANTIS (Wolfe Leguin Tiptree) - Book Club (#134407132167)
- o***b (91)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI purchased two books from this seller and they combined the shipping. I was actually credited BACK part of the shipping savings. Books were exactly as described and with new Brodart dust jacket covers. Mint condition. Books were packaged with care and were well protected. Shipping time was expeditious and the seller’s communication with me was above and beyond. I highly recommend and will definitely be doing business with again. Thanks so much.Jeff Lindsay - DEXTER BY DESIGN - 1st/1st - BRITISH (#131758845924)
- j***6 (302)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood purchase, good seller. Tape and case in very good condition as described in listing. Item was carefully packed, shipped out promptly, and arrived quickly. Have purchased from this seller before. Would definitely recommend seller based on my positive experiences.