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Voices
David Elliott
其他書名
The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
出版
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
, 2019-03
主題
Young Adult Fiction / Biographical
Young Adult Fiction / Historical / Medieval
Young Adult Fiction / Novels in Verse
ISBN
1328987590
9781328987594
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HOaLDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Bestselling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Joan of Arc gets the
Hamilton
treatment in this evocative novel.
Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc's life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood),
Voices
offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman. Along the way it explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. It is that girl we come to know in
Voices
.