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Gabriel's Story

By David Anthony Durham

By David Anthony Durham

By David Anthony Durham

By David Anthony Durham

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Apr 30, 2002 | ISBN 9780385720335

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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307425980

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    About Gabriel’s Story

    When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel’s Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.

    About Gabriel’s Story

    When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel’s Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.

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    The Other Lands
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    Pride of Carthage
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    About David Anthony Durham

    David Anthony Durham is the author of Pride of Carthage, the Acacia Trilogy, and other works of historical fiction and fantasy. His novels have twice been New York Times Notable Books and his novel Gabriel’s Story won the First Novel… More about David Anthony Durham

    About David Anthony Durham

    David Anthony Durham is the author of Pride of Carthage, the Acacia Trilogy, and other works of historical fiction and fantasy. His novels have twice been New York Times Notable Books and his novel Gabriel’s Story won the First Novel… More about David Anthony Durham

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Anchor
    Apr 30, 2002 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385720335

    Category: Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Anchor
    Dec 18, 2007 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307425980
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    Praise

    “Wise and beautifully written.”–USA Today

    “Artistically impressive and emotionally satisfying, a serious work that heads off in exhilarating directions.”–The New York Times Book Review

    “Sweeps the reader up into a fascinating, Oz-like whirlwind of language.”–San Francisco Chronicle

    “Moving. . . . The moral gravity of Durham’s narrative is offset by his attentiveness to the primacy of nature in the Western landscape.” –The New Yorker

    “Durham captures with exquisite precision the isolation, loneliness and cruelty of life in the vastness of the West . . . . The reader turns the last page with regret at the journey’s end.” –The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

    Awards

    Alex Award – YALSA WINNER 2002

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