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Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2002-02-05
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780066214443
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0066214440
ISBN-13
9780066214443
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1917044
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enemy Women : a Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Contemporary Women, Romance / Historical / General, General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-040200
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that's a joy to inhabit., I loved...it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we've come to love persevere and prosper?, Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier's 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain …, "ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize." -- Toronto Globe and Mail "I loved...it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we've come to love persevere and prosper?" -- Anna Quindlen "...remarkable happens...it becomes inspired... Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles." -- New York Times Book Review (cover) "This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence." -- New York Times "Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier's 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain ..." -- People "Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A remarkable debut... Splendid." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "...beautifully written passages...a real page-turner." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri's logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence." -- Booklist "Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history's grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing." -- Kaye Gibbons "You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book." -- Gordon Lish "ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul." -- Carolyn Chute "Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that's a joy to inhabit." -- Entertainment Weekly "Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn't quite do Jiles's novel justice." -- Washington Post, I loved…it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we've come to love persevere and prosper?, …remarkable happens...it becomes inspired… Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles., ...remarkable happens...it becomes inspired... Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles., Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history's grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing., Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison., Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier's 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain ..., ...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri's logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison. But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom. Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory., From critically acclaimed, award-winning poet and memoirist Paulette Jiles comes a debut novel of startling power and savage beauty -- an extraordinary story of survival and love in the midst of a torn nations bitter agony.For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War Between the States is a plague that threatens devastation despite the familys avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare seen at its most terrible on the day the Union Militia arrives to set her house on fire, driving her brother into hiding and dragging her widowed father away, beaten and bloodied. Left to care for two young sisters, Adair sees no road but the one that leads away, as they start out on foot into the winter mountains in search of a safe haven.Even the least of hopes is doomed, however, in a world forever changed, as the treachery of a fellow traveler brings about Adairs arrest on charges of "enemy collaboration." Torn from her terrified sisters, the girl suddenly finds herself consigned to a living hell, caged with the criminal and the deranged in a filthy womens prison in St. Louis.But young Adair is sustained by a strong heart, and love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and she finds herself returning her feelings despite herself. The major vows to return for her when the fighting is over, and before he returns to war, he leaves her with a last precious gift: freedom.Weakened in body but not in spirit, Adair must now travel alone through dangerous, unknown territory -- an escaped "enemy woman" surrounded by perils and misery on all sides. She makes her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise, seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.Based on a little known chapter in Americas bloodiest epoch, Paulette Jiless poignant, powerful, and exquisitely rendered novel about wars collateral victims is masterful work, captivating and authentic -- a lyrical, memorable tale of endurance and sacrifice that will stand alongside Cold Mountain and other classic Civil War era-set literature for decades to come.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.3.J54E5 2002
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