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The 19th Wife(Hardcover)
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Ebershoff, David
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Description
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"Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain."
Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's "The 19th Wife "combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family's polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.
Soon after Ann Eliza's story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds-a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father's death.
And as Ann Eliza's narrative intertwines with that of Jordan's search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.
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Reviews
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August 2008 Indie Next List
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Jane Dawson, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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Being a fan of David Ebershoff's, The Danish Girl and Pasadena, I was delighted to see he was still writing along with his editorial work at Randome House. The 19th Wife, brilliantly combines two stories, one, historical fiction about Ann Eliza Young, who defies her church and husband, Brigham Young; the other a modern day murder mystery set in Utah. Ebershoff adroitly gives the reader a behind the scenes glimpse and understanding of a world of faith and love most of us can not comprehend. Initially, you are drawn to the feisty Ann Eliza Young's story to find one true love, but due to circumstances is forced to make compromises, but then you are pulled into the gripping story of Jordan Scott, an outcast, can't have too many boys around in competition with the older men, and the son of the woman accused of murdering her polygamist husband. As always with Ebershoff, he stunningly writes with great depth and feeling for his characters, which leaves readers thinking about Jordan and Ann Eliza days after finishing the book.
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Product Details
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Publisher : Random House
Published : 08/01/2008
Format : Hardcover , pages 528
ISBN-10 : 1400063973
ISBN-13 : 9781400063970
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