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Bezig met laden... The Bride of the Wilderness (1989)door Charles McCarry
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I couldn't decide if this was a 3 or 4 as it definitely fell somewhere between there, but I was feeling generous, so I went with a 4. First of all, I should say that the blurb for this book is very misleading. In early 18th-century America, London-born Fanny and the French soldier Philippe (ancestors of McCarrys famous recurring spy Paul Christopher) brave savage Indians and other adventures. This description suggests this book is more of a romance about Fanny and Philippe. In reality the two of them dont' even become the major characters until the last 100 pages or so. Up until then the book is more in the nature of an epic, in that it follows a large cast of characters whose lives and paths alternatingly diverge and come together again and again. The story starts with Fanny's father and best friend, Oliver, as kids, then Fanny's childhood and upbringing and finally leading to Oliver's wedding to Rose. Rose and Oliver are two of the major players throughout the book, and later Ash, his wife, Hawkes, Thoughtful, Two Suns, Used to be Bears and many others. Its a large scale family story, ultimately ending with Fanny and Philippe beginning their life together, and thereby starting the line of Christophers that ends with the hero of McCarry's contemporary thrillers. Unfortunately, this focus on Fanny and Philippe at the end, was to the exclusion of McCarry finishing off many of the other plot lines that he had started. The end result is a book that is historical fiction for the first 80% and historical "romance" for the last 20%. The writing is very strong though as McCarry successfully conveyed his sense of time and place in both England and colonial America. I could see and feel the squalor of London that could breed the conditions of a plague-ravaged country and see the forests of beech trees that made up the beautiful, untamed and untouched wilderness of 18th century America. The histories of many of the characters of this book were interesting, fully developed and engaging. I surprisingly liked learning about Henry and Oliver's childhood friendship, Thoughtful's adoption by the Algonquins, Marie-Dominique and Philippe's game of Spy and more. It was not the story that I was expecting, but it was well-written all the same. http://www.tiedtothetracks.com/storytelling/archives/000528.html This is the story of Fanny, half English, half French, who goes to the new world with her godfather Oliver and his beautiful, strange wife, Rose, to take up residence in the village of Alamoth. This novel manages to tell a story of that time and place without romanticizing anyone. The Abenaki are who they are, and they do what they do when they attack and burn Alamoth. At the same time McCarry manages to make the reader understand someting of the way they viewed the world, and their relationship to the French. There is so much good about this novel, I am always surprised and a little sad to realize how little it is known. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Paul Christopher (Christopher family)
Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: The acclaimed author of such suspense classics as The Tears of Autumn and The Miernik Dossier brings us a unique period romance, set in early 18th century Europe and New England and featuring the ancestors of his recurring master-spy Paul Christopher. Young, high-spirited Fanny has been fortunate in her civilized upbringing, but the London she has grown up in is riddled with danger and brutality. When a sinister stranger traps her family into debt in order to advance on Fanny, she is forced to take refuge in France, where she meets a young French soldier called Philippe de Saint-Christophe. Their paths will cross again in the New World, where the war between the English and the French is fought with the help of savage Indians on both sides. Together, Fanny and Philippe will carve out a fierce, adventurous life in the vigorous, untamed wilderness. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Or one could just enjoy The Bride of the Wilderness for the wonderful, engrossing romance that it is, filled with fascinating characters, vivid settings, thrilling action and a complex and interesting plot.