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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... Sallie . . .” Though the major was young, his wounds had etched years into his face and his eyes flickered with weariness and pain. “Oh, Duncan . . .” she gasped as if long-held breath could, at last, safely be released. “I feared ...
... Sallie sniffled and rubbed her eyes and announced that she had no handkerchief. Nor, alas, did he, which occasioned more tearsilaughing tearsias she wiped her face on her apron. Sallie Gatewood was short, dark-haired, and possessed an ...
... 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, bore fifteen-year-old Duncan's child, Duncan's ...
... 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 gray ...
... Sallie, the child who studied her M cGufley 's under your first master, U ther Botkinilittle Sallie has wed my son Duncan. Though frightjfully wounded in the recent conflict, Duncan has come home. My son—in—law, Catesby Byrd, died at ...
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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 |