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A sweeping saga set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784 - “one of the best recreations of our pioneer past… honest and compassionate, rich and true” (The New York Times) 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 ...
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. John Ehle is a master of the American language.
24 de mar. de 2015 · Reviewed by Donna Meredith. John Ehle’s The Land Breakers transports readers to the mountains of North Carolina in 1779, when settlers first breach the virgin forests and wrestle a primitive life from the land. More completely and accurately than any other author, Ehle conveys the struggle involved in settling this rugged territory by immersing us in the day-to-day lives of early pioneers.
25 de nov. de 2014 · He wrote 11 novels including The Land Breakers, The Free Men, The Road, and The Widow's Trial. The Winter People and The Journey of August King were made into films. He received several awards including the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for North Carolina fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, and the Lillian Smith Award for Southern Fiction.
2 de jul. de 2022 · The land breakers by John Ehle. Publication date 1964 Publisher New York, Evanston, and London Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-07-02 14:09:56 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid
15 de jul. de 2006 · The Land Breakers. Hardcover – July 15, 2006. A motley band of characters makes its way into a high mountain valley in northwestern North Carolina to tame the land or to be consumed by it. Five years of struggle to create a community ensue, in which part of the struggle is just to survive. This is the story of late 18th century life in an ...
“The Land Breakers is one of the best recreations of our pioneer past that we have had in years, honest and compassionate, rich and true…In a time of dreamless heroes, of long-winded whimpers that pass as novels, The Land Breakers has a rare degree of greatness.” —The New York Times “The Land Breakers is a great American novel, way beyond anything most New York literary icons have ...
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