Canaan: A NovelW. W. Norton & Company, 2008年2月17日 - 432 頁 "A bred-in-the-bones storyteller." —Geraldine Brooks Canaan fills a vast canvas. Its points of reference are Richmond in the throes of Reconstruction; the trading floors of Wall Street; a Virginia plantation; and the Great Plains, where the splendidly arrogant George Custer—Yellowhair—rides to his fate against Sitting Bull’s warriors. This is the story of America over twenty years of its most turbulent history. The characters are black, white, and red, ex-Union and ex-Confederate; and the principal narrator is a Santee woman She Goes Before who marries an ex-slave. Through her eyes we witness the hanging of her father by whites in the mass execution of 1863, Red Cloud’s banquet with President Grant, and that final confrontation on the bluffs above the Little Bighorn. |
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... BURNS 136 A FORMER LOVER 139 THE SUPPLICANT 144 MILITARY DISTRICT #1 151 INCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND 84 DANVILLE RAILROAD 152 TERRAPIN A LA DELMONICO 157 IN THE HAYFIELD 170. PARTTWOzTHE. ATLANTIO. MI$$I$$IPPI&. OHIO. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
... burn scar his sparse beard partially concealed. “Dear Duncan,” she said. “My dearest, dearest . . .” Under her touch his ... Burns too. When the slave girl, Maggie, bore fifteen-year-old Duncan's child, Duncan's father, Samuel, had sold ...
... burn or carry off. Christ, Virginia looks like . . . like . . . ain't like nothin' I ever seed.” Corporal Smithersiwhose eyes were crossing from drinkisaid, “My Lizzie wasn't but fifteen when we wedded. I'm sure gonna miss that gal ...
... burn warehouses before they evacuated Richmond, the Confederates had made too good ajob of it and Richmond had burned from the waterfront almost to the Capitol. The fire had burned itself out two blocks south ofMolly's home. Some of ...
... Burns, I swear to God Damned God. That nigger got his back pay, his uniform, and he goin' home to God Damn Charleston-Charleston!ithinkin' things gonna be different for him. Ten minutes after that boy come home he'll be shuckin' that ...
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OF VIRGINIA TO THE PEOPLE OF | 75 |
TO MRS SAMUEL GATEWOOD | 82 |
AN OPIUM EATER | 126 |
WHAT RAVEN SAW | 131 |
DISPATCH FROM COLONEL HENRY CARRINGTON | 134 |
LETTER FROM EDWARD RATCLIFF TO jESSE BURNS | 136 |
37 MR STUART ARGUES FOR COMPROMISE | 237 |
SAMUEL GATEWOOD | 238 |
39 THE CANDIDATE FROM MARSHALL WARD | 241 |
4o GHOSTOWNING | 246 |
GENERAL MAHONES SIGNAL VICTORY | 248 |
IMMIGRANTS | 253 |
4s BLACK FRIDAY | 266 |
44 WASHITU STRAWBERRIES | 272 |
A FORMER LOVER | 139 |
THE SUPPLICANT | 144 |
MILITARY DISTRICT 1 | 151 |
INCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND 84 | 152 |
TERRAPIN A LA DELMONICO | 157 |
IN THE HAYFIELD | 170 |
PARTTWOzTHE ATLANTIO MIIIPPI OHIO RAILROAD | 177 |
A PHILADELPHIA SANITARIUM | 179 |
LETTER FROM IESSE BURNS TO EDWARD RATCLIFF | 184 |
LETTER FROM THOMAS BYRD TO SAMUEL GATEWOOD | 187 |
THE IRONCLAD OATH | 190 |
KI YA MANI YO | 191 |
MENU FOR A BANQUET HONORING MR CHARLES DICKENS | 205 |
LETTER FROM EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS PAULINE BYRD | 207 |
IMPEACHMENT | 210 |
33 A HAPPY OCCASION | 215 |
34 CIRCLING THE KETTLE | 222 |
35 LETTER FROM MRS EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS MOLLY SEMPLE | 227 |
A SQUAW MAN | 232 |
PARTTHREElN THE VALLEY OF THE EREAEY ERAEE 45 LIGHT BROTH AND A CODDLED EGG | 283 |
IN THE TERRITORY | 289 |
47 A TREASURE TROVE | 300 |
A CADAVER | 308 |
49 RATION DAY | 320 |
5o ON THE SCOOT | 326 |
PANIC | 340 |
MRS S T GATEWOODS BOARDINGHOUSE BRUNSWICK STEW | 348 |
OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE | 357 |
54 THE BONE GAME | 361 |
55 IN THE MOON OF RIPENING BLACKBERRIES | 364 |
HOKA HEY | 366 |
57 LETTER FROM RANDOLPH HOWLAND TO MRS EBEN BARNWELL | 374 |
59 KILL SONGS | 377 |
AMERICAS TEMPERANCE DRINK | 415 |
Epilogue | 423 |
Acknowledgments | 425 |