Ebook {Epub PDF} The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley

Lidie grows increasingly important to us as we follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, this is Jane Smiley at her enthralling and enriching best/5(80).  · The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. / hyly. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in , and her novel The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley recaptures an almost forgotten part of the American story and once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance in The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Set in the s, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense. In this comprehensive study of Jane Smiley's fiction, Neil Nakadate offers insight into the strikingly imaginative and intellectual range of a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer best known for A Thousand Acres. He provides close readings - from the early Barn Blind to The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - and presents the first extended. Smiley (Moo, , etc.) scales another peak with this bighearted and thoughtful picaresque novel set mostly in the Kansas Territory shortly before the Civil War. Narrator Lydia "Lidie" Harkness grows up in Quincy, Illinois, a tomboyish burden to her several older stepsisters, and leaps at the chance to marry Thomas Newton, a soft-spoken abolitionist who's bent on helping the "free-staters.

New Search Search for "travels" The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton Smiley, Jane. Book. Historical fiction. Published London. 1. Jane Smiley's has lauded Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin for the artistry with which "the power of brilliant analysis" is "married to great wisdom of feeling." How does The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton measure up to this standard? 2. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Jane Smiley, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Q A with Jane Smiley.