| I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark Contributor(s): Hall, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142003719 ISBN-13: 9780142003718 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: Presenting the story of Lewis and Clark in an entirely new light, Hall uses the novelist's art to produce a compulsively readable book that fills the gaps and provides a new perspective on this great American story. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.56" W x 8.4" (0.88 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Brian Hall's compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark's extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants' lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices--from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl-captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. Bringing the day-to-day life of the expedition alive as no work of history ever could, Hall's magnificent novel fills in the gaps and provides a new perspective on the most famous journey in American history. |