The Eulogist Contributor(s): Gamble, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062839896 ISBN-13: 9780062839893 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $22.94 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: 813.6 |
LCCN: 2018018492 |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American family. After losing their mother in childbirth and their father to a riverboat headed for New Orleans, James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves. Ambitious James eventually marries into a prosperous family, builds a successful business, and rises in Cincinnati society. Taken by the spirit and wanderlust, Erasmus becomes an itinerant preacher, finding passion and heartbreak as he seeks God. Independent-minded Olivia, seemingly destined for spinsterhood, enters into a surprising partnership and marriage with Silas Orpheus, a local doctor who spurns social mores. When her husband suddenly dies from an infection, Olivia travels to his family home in Kentucky, where she meets his estranged brother and encounters the horrors of slavery firsthand. After abetting the escape of one slave, Olivia is forced to confront the status of a young woman named Tilly, another slave owned by Olivia's brother-in-law. When her attempt to help Tilly ends in disaster, Olivia tracks down Erasmus, who has begun smuggling runaways across the river--the borderline between freedom and slavery. As the years pass, this family of immigrants initially indifferent to slavery will actively work for its end--performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gamble, Terry: - Terry Gamble is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan. She lives in Sonoma and San Francisco, California. |