Little Century
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781455158720 (1455158720)
Publish date: June 1st 2012
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Using lyrical prose, author Anna Keesey tells the story of Esther, an eighteen year old orphan from Chicago who travels west to Century, Oregon, a frontier town in the early years of the twentieth century, to live with her distant cousin, her only known relative. Against the backdrop of the ran...
3.5 starsUpon the death of her mother, Esther Chambers moves West to Central Oregon at the invitation of distant cousin Ferris Pickett (Pick). Pick is a cattle rancher, and he wants Esther to homestead a recently abandoned piece of land adjacent to his own ranch. Esther settles in to her new home an...
I picked up an ARC of Little Century largely because of the review on the front cover by Joshua Ferris which called it, "A frontier saga, a love story, and an epic of many small pleasures."Now that I have read it for myself, I have mixed feelings about that description. I would say that if you enjoy...