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Free Passage

Free Passage

Free Passage

J.R. Poulter / J.RPoulter

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2017
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781925484113
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What price does war exact for freedom? This is war through the eyes of survivors amidst bloodied fields of victims.Set during the Civil War, 'Free Passage' tells interlinked stories of men, young women & children, whose lives are torn apart by War. Each of them fliesin the face of adversity & each triumphs, though in a verydifferent way. It begins with the tragedy of the Maguire twins& introduces Girl, a deaf slave, who finds forbidden lovewith a good man, her owner’s son, only to have War wrenchthem apart. She flees to seek freedom for herself & herchild in Canada. Migrant tinker, Herr Schmidt, seeks acrossthe war torn States to find his missing daughter, Mina, finding instead a runaway slave & an orphaned boy caring forhis little brother. The War makes a man of the boy before histime. Mina escapes her captors & lives by her wits, findingher way to safety & a future she could once only dream. EXCERPT, 'Girl’s Story,' Wordgathering, Australia, Dec 2014 & no.71, 2015 Kaleidoscope, USA

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