Isbn: 9781942658627 - the welsh fasting girl (10 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - BASED ON A TRUE STORY: O'Connor spent six years investigating the mystery of Sarah Jacob's death and writing this novel, traveling to Wales twice to consult with a Welsh legal historian and visit archives and historical sites, including Sarah's church, burial site, the place of her trial, and the castle where her parents were detained. O'Connor adheres closely to the historical facts of Sarah's story, focusing as much on the impact of her death as the effort to keep her alive, and delivering an empathetic novel that brilliantly evokes Wales and one of its most memorable cultural and historical events.NOTABLE AUTHOR OF WOMEN'S FICTION: Varley O'Connor's fastidiously researched, character-driven novels all focus on gender and have been recognized for foregrounding women's voices as well as illness and its relationship to cultural and historical constructs. Michael Chabon has called her work 'elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted,' while Susan Richards Shreve praises her ability to 'capture the dangerous intersection between private life and the forces of history.' Vogue praised her most recent novel for capturing the 'essence of a private, dauntless woman,' and that novel also received terrific coverage in outlets such as O, The Oprah Magazine. The Welsh Fasting Girl successfully delves deeper into some of O'Connor's favorite themes through the voice of a widowed woman journalist covering a young girl's tragic story.HISTORICAL MYSTERY/CONTEMPORARY RESONANCE: The historical mystery at the heart of The Welsh Fasting Girl contextualizes the intimate personal story of Sarah's life and death (including her eating disorder and probable sexual abuse) within the legal and political turmoil of Wales's struggle under England's colonial control. Just as Arthur Miller's play The Crucible traced a mass delusion where scapegoated individuals were sacrificed to an age's hysteria (a parallel then to the McCarthy trials), this story parallels contemporary clashes in religion, science, and medicine, the journalists who cover them, and the young women who are often the victims of these societal conflicts.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnVarley O Connor is the author of five novels, including The Welsh Fasting Girl, The Master s Muse, and The Cure. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.Klappentextrnrn.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 352 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | A nineteenth-century American journalist becomes deeply invested in the tragic case of a young Welsh girl deemed a miracle.