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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... TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES 75 THE COCINERO 79 LETTER FROM MRS. DUNCAN GATEWOOD TO MRS. SAMUEL GATEWOOD 82 COURT DAY 85 RAINY DAY STEW 90 THE LOYAL LEAGUE 94 SON-OF-A-BITCH STEW 101 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
... Duncan . . .” she gasped as if long-held breath could, at last, safely be released. “I feared . . .” “Thomas Byrd, he got through without a scratch. That boy is heading home at the double-quick.” He removed his gray slouch hat and ...
... Duncan's easy grace had been sobered by four years of war. “I've some yankee coffee.” Duncan Gatewood smiled. “One day we were trying to kill 'em, next day we were eating their rations.” Their rooms were the kitchen and back bedroom of ...
... DUNCAN HAD KNOWN each other since childhood. Sallie's schoolmaster father, Uther Botkin, had taught Sallie and Duncan and, though it was illegal under Virginia law, he had taught the negro Jesse Burns too. When the slave girl, Maggie ...
... Duncan and Sallie took pleasure behind these ruined walls from which war was banished; in which generosity prevailed and anger and disgrace lay abandoned outside the door. LATER, As HER HUSBAND SLEPT, Sally snipped the insignia from his ...
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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 |