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A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, The Wolf Pit is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell.
Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil.
By turns eloquent and harrowing, The Wolf Pit explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.
Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil.
By turns eloquent and harrowing, The Wolf Pit explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.
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- Título The Wolf Pit
- Autor Youmans, Marly
- Encuadernación Trade Paper
- Edición First Printing
- Páginas 352
- Idioma EN
- Editorial Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, San Diego
- Fecha de publicación 2003-02-03
- ISBN 9780156027144
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PRAISE FOR THE WOLF PIT
"Youmans [is] quite a storyteller."--The Washington Post Book World
"Spirited, intelligent, and profoundly human."--The News & Observer (Raleigh)
"Blazingly good . . . You'll very much enjoy this book."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Spellbinding . . . Remarkably withstands comparisons with . . . Cold Mountain. Vividly authentic."--Orlando Sentinel
"Youmans [is] quite a storyteller."--The Washington Post Book World
"Spirited, intelligent, and profoundly human."--The News & Observer (Raleigh)
"Blazingly good . . . You'll very much enjoy this book."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Spellbinding . . . Remarkably withstands comparisons with . . . Cold Mountain. Vividly authentic."--Orlando Sentinel
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The Wolf Pit
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Wolf Pit, The: A Novel
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NY: Harvest / Harcourt. 2003. vg-. Paperback. ISBN:9780156027144 Michael Shaara Award for Best Civil War Fiction medal on front cover. 342 pages; contents clean; binding solid; shelf wear & curling to edges of color il'd cover .
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Harvest Books, 2003-02-03. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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