THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA - Couverture souple

Simpson Smith, Katy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007564007 ISBN 13 : 9780007564002

Editeur : The Borough Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson

North Carolina, 1793. When nine-year-old Tab catches yellow fever, her father John steals her onto a boat, hoping the sea air will cure his only child. For comfort, he tells Tab stories about her mother Helen, who died in childbirth.

Two decades earlier, Helen is given a slave girl for her tenth birthday. Moll s arrival is meant to teach Helen discipline but soon the girls are close confidantes, until the arrival of John, a pirate turned soldier. And as the town is threatened in the dying embers of the Revolution, Helen must decide between a life of security on the family plantation and a sea adventure with the man she loves.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson,
Mississippi. She attended Mount Holyoke College
and received a PhD in history from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the
Bennington Writing Seminars. She has been working as
an adjunct professor at Tulane University and has published
a study of early American motherhood, We Have
Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750 1835.
She lives in New Orleans.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Borough Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0007564007
• ISBN 13: 9780007564002
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 318