A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics)
After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the ambitions that were once her own.
After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the ambitions that were once her own.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140384284 (0140384286)
ASIN: 0140384286
Publish date: 1997-04-01
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
This book was OK..As Willa Cather is my favorite author, I was looking for similiar authors. BSA isn't quite it..I enjoyed the book, but that was the end of it.
I cried the whole way through this book. It's a powerful, unsentimental survey of a pioneer woman's life. I confess to being impatient with Abbie's continual self-denial, and cranky when she claimed that age 45 was "too late" to learn anything new, but that's a minor quibble. The sweep and swing of ...
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