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The Land Breakers

The Land Breakers

by John Ehle and Linda Spalding
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/12/2014

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Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784,The Land Breakersis 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 establishedThe Land Breakersas one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America.
ISBN:
9781590177631
9781590177631
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-12-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
368
Dimensions (mm):
202x20x134mm
Weight:
0.39kg
Linda Spalding

Linda Spalding is the author of four critically acclaimed novels The Purchase,(awarded Canada 's Governor General 's Literary Award) Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and Mere.

She runs the Canadian literary magazine, Brick, with her husband Michael Ondaatje. She lives in Toronto.

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