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A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer by Jeremy Poolman
by Jeremy Poolman | HC | VeryGood
US $7.56
Approximately£5.59
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“Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ”... Read moreAbout condition
Very Good
A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the book cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Very little wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781582341217
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1582341214
ISBN-13
9781582341217
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2208742
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wounded Thing Must Hide : in Search of Libbie Custer
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, United States / General, Historical, Military
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
973.8/2/092
Synopsis
A vibrant, deeply personal portrait of the wife of General Custer. Brilliant, inventive, but not in any conventional sense a biography, A Wounded Thing Must Hide is Jeremy Poolman's first foray into nonfiction, taking as its subject the fascinating wife of General Custer. He relates key scenes in Libbie's extraordinary life-her brushes with Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Tsar Alexander III, and Henry James, to name a few-each episode proving rich in relishably surreal detail. We see Libbie ferrying dung from Vienna to St. Petersburg (a present from empress to tsar, to ward off cholera and typhus); taking delivery of the present of a bear from Alex himself; stumbling into a soldier who might perhaps be the great-great-grandfather of Bob Dylan. Throughout it all, we catch glimpses of the glorious, wayward career of the General himself, culminating in the famous slaughter at Little Big Horn. Far from an aridly factual outline of who did what where, Poolman offers us a vividly, tangibly real re-creation of historical events. He gets to places other biographies can't reach, bleeding, at times, into autobiography. Haunted by the death of his own wife, the narrator follows Libbie's itinerary in search of something unnamed in himself. Through exploring a widow's determination to protect her husband's damaged reputation, he hopes to find a way to deal with his personal loss. By exploring Libbie's and Custer's enduring love and devotion, he finds a form for his own.
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