The Living: A Novel

by Dillard, Annie

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Very Good.. Hardcover. HARDCOVER with dustjacket 2nd printing 1992 HarperCollins. Very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Only light wear. 397pp. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'Pulitzer Prize-winner Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) turns her hand to fiction with this historical novel of the American Northwest in the late 19th century. Focusing on the settlement at Whatcom on Bellingham Bay (near Puget Sound), Dillard offers a compelling portrait of frontier life. The novel has a large and richly varied cast of characters, from the engaging frontiersman Clare Fishburn and Eastern socialite-turned-pioneer Minta Honer to the disturbed and violent Beal Obenchain and kleptomaniac Pearl Sharp. The Living is unflinching in its delineations of pioneer life at its worst and best--racism and brutality on the one hand and optimism and charity in adversity on the other. Dillard's view of the living in its many senses is a fine novel that is an essential purchase for all fiction collections.'--Dean James, Library Journal, 1992.