Filaree

Langue : anglais

Edité par Random House, New York, 1979

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Brown paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine. A real photo of Marguerite Noble is glued to the first blank page with her holding a paperback copy of the book in her hands. This is a hardback copy of the book, a first edition, signed and dated 10-5-83. Nice to have the photo with the book. Mrs. Noble appears to be in historical costume. It is in 1910 and Melissa Baker is thirty one years old. But that January day, riding beside her husbabnd Ben on the wagon headed forthe midwife's house, she feels prematurely aged. When they left Texas for Arizona Territory and settled at the Filaree Ranch, she hoped to find a better life. Instead she has seen her years consumed by drudgery in the barren cattle country known as The Mesa, by the bearing of children to a man she does not love. The child about to be born, she vows, will be the last. But the turns her life will take from this moment are completely unexpected. Filaree is named after the stubborn forage grass that, like Melissa Baker herself, seemsto resist and survive, evebnto thrive, in the harshest seasons. This novel is the story of her attempt, amid loneliness and hardship of a West sdthat was still a frontier, to keep alive the hope that that life has not passed her by. It is a hope personified by Ike Talbott, the foreman of the El Bar Ranch, whose life she saves and whose love sustains her. But Filaree is also a novel about the extraordinaryi struggles of ordiary people who paid a higher price than we care to remember for opening a new land Melissa witnesses the death of a son, the loss of the ranch, and the disinegration of the family that has been her only bulwark. She wanders for years, working as a cook in a mining camp and as a migrant worker in California, in an effort to put her broken life together. Filaree is a portrait of a woman who strives against great odds to create her destiny and who, inher own way, succeeds. Mielissa Bakera is a character reminiscent of such American archetypes as Willa Cather's Antonia or Miss Jane Pittman. LIlly Tomlin has taken an option on Filaree for a television mini series. Marguerite Noble was born in 1910 in the Arizona Territory and spent many years teaching junior high school in Phoenix. This is her first novel. She is the mother of novelist Cynthia Buchanan, who encouraged her to write this novel after her memoir of life in the Arizona Territory had appeared on Op-Ed page of The New York Times. Marguerite Parker (Buchanan) Noble born January 29, 1910, Roosevelt, Az, died at Payson, January 1, 2007, renown for her Arizona novel Filaree based on her Texas Pioneer parents Daniel Webster Parker and Arminda Jane Soloman (Parker) Skinner. Nicknamed Dickie, she was educated at Punkin Center, Florence, Tempe Normal and ASU. Her career as a social studies teacher was at Phoenix's Creighton School.

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Titre
Filaree
Auteur
Marguerite Noble
Éditeur
Random House, New York
Année de publication
1979
État de l'article
Good +
Jaquette
Very Good
Signé
Signed by Author(s)
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
1st Edition

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