Awards-Hal Boyle Award, Overseas Press Club, 1990 Nitaī.
Education-B.A., Sydney University M.A.Year of Wonders is a detailed evocation of a singular moment in history."-BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes, instead, annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders.' Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged mountain spine of England. When villagers turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. But as death reaches into every household, faith frays. Convinced by a visionary young minister, they elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundaries to arrest the spread of the disease. Through Anna's eyes, we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow villagers make an extraordinary choice. | War stories.Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. | United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction. March family (Fictitious characters) - Fiction. Includes A Penguin readers guide to March. "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005"-T.p. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks s place as a renowned author of historical fiction. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. With"pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. March : a novel / Geraldine Brooks Book Bib IDĪn extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history by the author of the international bestseller Year of Wonders From Louisa May Alcott s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd).
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