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The White
Deborah Larsen
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2007-12-18
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Biographical
ISBN
0307429601
9780307429605
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Hr3tfxyHHF4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now named Two-Falling-Voices--begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American.