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Neverhome / Laird Hunt.
LIBRA - Rare PS3608.U58 N48 2015 Mathews copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, Laird, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women soldiers--United States--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Women soldiers.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Female--Fiction.
- Military participation--Female.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- War stories.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
- Hunt, Laird (autograph) (Mathews copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 246 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Never home
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2015.
- Summary:
- I was strong and he was not so it was me went to war to defend the Republic. I stepped across the border out of Indiana into Ohio. Twenty dollars, two salt-pork sandwiches, and I took jerky, biscuits, six old apples, fresh underthings and a blanket too. There was a conflagration to come; I wanted to lend it my spark. Meet Gallant Ash: hero, folk legend and master of war. Ash is a leader of men and a brutal and fearless soldier. Ash will kill for no reason. But Ash has a secret. Gallant Ash is a woman. This is her story.
- Notes:
- Originally published : USA : Litte, Brown and Company, 2014.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "For Harry with love. February 2015. Laird." Dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9780701188795
- 0701188790
- OCLC:
- 904260937
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