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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
Brian Hall
其他書名
A Novel of Lewis and Clark
出版
Penguin Publishing Group
, 2003-12-30
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Biographical
ISBN
0142003719
9780142003718
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UqL39bMqZcoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
A sweeping, gorgeously written novel of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition, named one of the best novels of the year by
The Boston Globe
,
Salon
,
The Los Angeles Times
, and
The Christian Science Monitor
.
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.