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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 51 筆
... HAPPY OCCASION 215 CIRCLING THE KETTLE 222 LETTER FROM MRS. EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS MOLLY SEMPLE 227 A SQUAW MAN 232 MR. STUART ARGUES FOR COMPROMISE 237 5960. AMERICA'S TEMPERANCE DRINK 415 Epilogue 423 Acknowledgments 425 12 CONTENTS.
... Molly Semple and I would be captured.” “No telling when those poor bastards will be coming home.” “But the War is over.” “It's over when the Federals say it's over.]eff Davis is still on the run.” “But General Lee has surrendered.” “Yes ...
... Molly Semple testified “Yes, ma'am,” Jack the Driver said. At Cousin Molly's request they dallied at the turn above Stratford, once the finest plantation in the Jackson River Valley. “The mill wheel . . . '9” Molly observed. Stratford's ...
... Molly. Lightning hit the cow barn. Weren't no cows in it, though. When it burnt, Miss Abigail, she said she prayed we wouldn ... Molly's acquaintances borrowed from Richmond's new money changersithe carpetbaggersiand Confederate currency ...
... Molly's shoulder. “Imposition, dear Molly? We have begged for your visits.” “My visit may be rather extended.” Molly's smile didn't require reassurance but didn't positively forbid it. Abigail clapped her hands. “More's the better. Oh, ...
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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 |