Winner · Governor General's Literary Awards 2012
The Purchase
by Linda Spalding
Governor General's Award-winning work of fiction
Shunned by his Quaker community for marrying a servant girl, Daniel Dickinson pursues a new life on the Virginia frontier, where his family's values are tested by the challenges of homestead life and the moral dilemma of slave ownership.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781908737526
- Subjects
- Roman, Widowers, Life change events, Amerikanisches Englisch, Slavery, Fiction, United states, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
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