The Train to Estelline: The First Novel in a Trilogy - Couverture souple

Wood, Jane Roberts

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1574410784 ISBN 13 : 9781574410785

Editeur : University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

Together for the first time as a classic Texas trilogy:

The Train to Estelline

A Place Called Sweet Shrub

Dance a Little Longer

The Lucinda "Lucy" Richards trilogy, spanning the years from 1911 to the 1930s, has everything good books should have: a variety of landscapes, characters of all ages and social classes, an overall tenderness that never lapses into sentimentality, and a sense of the comic amidst the tragic. Lucy is feisty, funny, and completely open-armed about life. Josh passionately confronts danger and greed and prejudice with courage and humor and, sometimes, with bare fists. Even the minor characters are so rife with color that you first turn the pages quickly to see what they will do next and, then, you turn them slowly so as to savor each page of this remarkable trilogy.

"I have longed for a wider world, a great adventure. And now it's here. I'm so happy I can hardly breathe." So ends seventeen-year-old Lucinda Richards' diary entry for August 17, 1911, starting her job as the new school teacher for the White Star school in the Panhandle. Jane Roberts Wood brings to this delightful and affecting epistolary novel a tender touch and a wry sense of humor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Roberts Wood received the Texas Institute of Letters award in 1998 for the Best Short Story, received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study at Yale, as well as a NEA Fellowship. A member of TIL and PEN, she lives with her husband, Dub, in Dallas, Texas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1574410784
• ISBN 13: 9781574410785
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 209
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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