The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Összefoglaló

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres

"Rousing... Action-packed... A gripping story about love, fortitude, and convictions that are worth fighting for."--Los Angeles Times

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

"POWERFUL... Smiley takes us back to Kansas in 1855, a place of rising passions and vast uncertainties. Narrated in the spirited, unsentimental voice of 20-year-old Lidie Newton, the novel is at once an ambitious examination of a turning point in history and the riveting story of one woman's journey into uncharted regions of place and self."--Chicago Tribune

"[A] grand tale of the moral and political upheavals igniting antebellum frontier life and a heroine so wonderfully fleshed and unforgettable you will think you are listening to her story instead of reading it. Smiley may have snared a Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres... but it is with Lydia (Lidie) Harkness Newton that she emphatically captures our hearts.... The key word in Smiley's title is Adventures, and Lydia's are crammed with breathless movement, danger, and tension; populated by terrifically entertaining characters and securely grounded in telling detail."--The Miami Herald