The Land Breakers The Land Breakers

The Land Breakers

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Publisher Description

A sweeping saga set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784—“one of the best recreations of our pioneer past . . . honest and compassionate, rich and true” (The New York Times)

Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the mountain world—one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity—and begin to make a world of their own.

Mooney and Imy are the first to confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others.

Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. John Ehle is a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established The Land Breakers as one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
November 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.5
MB

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