Homesman
Swarthout, Glendon, 1918-19922014
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'Homesman' opens in the 1850s, when early pioneers are doing anything they can to survive dreadful conditions. Women especially struggle with broken hearts and minds as they face bitter hardships: one 19-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days; another woman left alone for two nights is forced to shoot wolves to protect herself. The situation calls for a homesman - a person charged with taking these women, driven mad by the conditions of rural life, to asylums in the East.
Main title:
Homesman / by Glendon Swarthout.
Author:
Swarthout, Glendon, 1918-1992, author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Collation:
256 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781476754260 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1792026