|
Showing 1 - 8 of
8 matches in All Departments
|
A Reckoning (Paperback)
Linda Spalding
1
|
R409
R306
Discovery Miles 3 060
Save R103 (25%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Spring 1855 and Virginian farmer John Dickinson has a dangerous
secret that will lead to a tragic decision. The family's riches
have been wasted by his reckless brother who holds all of them
hostage and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved
workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who pushes
them to escape. One does, and his pursuit of freedom involves a
dangerous quest to find his mother and child North of the border.
Meanwhile, the Dickinson family become fugitives of another kind,
escaping their losses in a wagon en route to a new life in the
West. Confronted by hunger, fear and a near fatal river boat
accident, each member of the family is tested to their limits.
Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779
and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the
book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence
of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering
emergence of community. Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former
indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not
long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account
settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their
savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a
little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the
mountain world-one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity-and
begin to make a world of their own. Mooney and Imy are the first to
confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and
sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others. John Ehle is
a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and
an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established
The Land Breakers as one of the great fictional reckonings with the
making of America.
Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction
Pennsylvania, 1798. Daniel Dickinson, a devout Quaker, has just
lost his wife. When he marries a fifteen-year-old Methodist orphan
to help with his five small children, his fellow Quakers disown him
for his impropriety. Forced out of the only community he's ever
known, Daniel moves his family to the Virginia frontier. He has in
hand a few land warrants, with which he plans to establish his new
homestead.
Although determined to hold to his Quaker belief in abolitionism,
Daniel is now in a slave state, and he soon finds himself the owner
of a young boy named Onesimus. This fatal purchase sets in motion a
twisted chain of events that will forever change his children's
lives--and his own. An unforgettable story of sacrifice and
redemption, "The Purchase" powerfully explores questions of fate,
faith, loyalty, and conscience.
When a murder occurs in beautiful Hawaii, the suspects are two
young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Mayann Acker is
eighteen-years-old. Her husband, William, is twenty-eight and just
out of prison.
Linda Spalding is chosen as a juror for Maryann's trail.
Surprisingly, the chief witness against her is William. Spalding
has her doubts, but on the last day of the trial she is abruptly
dismissed from the jury. Maryann is found guilty. "Who Named the
Knife "is the story of how, eighteen years later, Spalding tracks
down Maryann and uncovers much more than the answer to the question
of her innocence. A complex journey into the twists of fate that
spin two lives down different paths, "Who Named the Knife "offers
profound insight into the human heart.
|
Lost Classics - Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission (Paperback, 1st Anchor Books ed)
Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding
1
|
R572
R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
Save R75 (13%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.
Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, “being lovers of books, we’ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory.” Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics.
Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekara’s Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene–the “slightly ditzy” cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson on a children’s book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on William Golding’s Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoir’s account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles’s Othello, and much, much more.
|
Lost Classics (Paperback)
Michael Ondaatje; Edited by Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding
|
R484
R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
Save R117 (24%)
|
Out of stock
|
An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books
loved and lost-great books overlooked, under-read, out of print,
stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.
Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost
Classics is a reader's delight: an intriguing and entertaining
collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written
in a joint introduction to the book, being lovers of books, we've
pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives,
telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or
even just in our own memory. Anyone who has ever been changed by a
book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics.
Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this
collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker
Tissa Abeysekara's Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era
of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in
the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905;
Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by
Barbara Greene-the slightly ditzy cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson
on a children's book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on
William Golding's Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac
Liammoir's account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles's
Othello, and much, much more.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|