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No man's land : a novel / John Vigna.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.V546 N62 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vigna, John, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eighteen nineties--Fiction.
- Eighteen nineties.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Prophets--Fiction.
- Prophets.
- Faith--Fiction.
- Faith.
- Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- British Columbia--Fiction.
- British Columbia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A sprawling saga set in the Canadian wilderness of the late 19th century, about a teenaged girl named Davey, a charismatic fraudster, and the unbearable weight of fate. In this powerful, panoramic novel set in the late 1890s, in a sliver of rugged British Columbia wilderness, a fourteen-year-old girl named Davey - too young to be given a chance at creating her own life - finds herself raised by a group of eccentric, hostile misfits who rescued her as an infant on a bloody battlefield. She roams the countryside with them, led by Reverend Brown, a charismatic false prophet, hosting revivals for unsuspecting believers while lingering on the cusp of unimaginable events. Davey tries to locate a semblance of peace in this harrowing, beautiful place, but what she finds instead is an astonishing panoply of falsehoods and depravity, a vicious world composed of murderers, thieves, and dancing bears. And in this unforgiving landscape of craggy beauty and singular resoluteness, she wages a fight for truth while traversing the delicate line between destiny and fate as she comes to understand the role Reverend Brown plays in her life. No Man's Land is part classic coming-of-age story, part unwavering portrait of the bloody price of power, a raw and bold novel about the search for family, and a grand tale about an education in the pull of predestination and the responsibility of free will. Haunting on every page, filled with sorrow and awe, and stunning in the tonality of its vision, No Man's Land is an unflinching meditation on the legacy of violence, its senseless destructiveness, and the fearless dignity and tenderness required to rise above it."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vigna, John, 1965- No man's land.
- ISBN:
- 9781551528663
- 1551528665
- OCLC:
- 1249558361
- Publisher Number:
- 99989397216
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