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Title: |
Tree of Life |
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| By (author): |
Hugh Nissenson |
| ISBN10-13: |
0966491327 : 9780966491326 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
150x230mm |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Weight: |
.250 Kg. |
| Published: |
Paul Dry Books (US) - May 2000 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Historical fiction |
| Eighteen months of the life of Thomas Keene, a fictitious 19th-century congregational minister, is traced in this journal-like novel. Having suffered a loss of faith, Keene abandons the East for frontier life in the Ohio wilderness. His account is by turns violent, tender, and erotic. Keene is both a witness to history, describing the many ordinary and horrific details of frontier life (including the conflict between white settlers and Indians), and a man searching for personal meaning in a world without God. Like a true frontier journal, the novel includes illustrations attributed to Keene. As a foil to the main character, the historic figure John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, is portrayed as a believer who lives with self-doubt. |
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