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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... couldn't march to his cadence. The condemned men bumped into each other and stumbled. Each had to be helped up the stairs and guided to his proper trap. The Santee began singing and stamping their feet and their medicine was very strong ...
... and Chepstow's disinterest had clouded Hayward's afternoon. Despite this, he couldn't be downhearted in this jolly fellow's company. “Mr. Barnwell,” Hayward began. “Oh, no!” Eben refused the unmerited honor. “It is for CANAAN | 3?
... sergeant found a lint-covered plug and settled it in hisjaw. “What ofthis Cooke?” Eben clapped his hands. “Where others see peril, jay Cooke sees opportunity. Why, you boys couldn't have fought the war without CANAAN | 39.
... couldn't 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 ...
... Pompey loved singing. His booming bass. The colored singers in the garret of that little church of yours made sure we “Grandfather buried Pompey and brought Aunt Opal home. She's changed,. whites couldn't hear our own voices.” CANAAN | 49.
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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 |