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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company
A Novel of Lewis and Clark
by Brian Hall
ISBN: 0786255773
ISBN-13: 9780786255771
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This historical novel covers the long and fruitful collaboration between Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, telling the story from a variety of viewpoints that include not only the two principals but Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman who served as their guide, and York, one of Clark's slaves.
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"Hall takes the greatest risks with Sacajawea, realizing her thoughts in dense passages that, even so, when carefully followed, make the neolithic Shoshone world palpable. Not easy, but a serious, ambitious, complex and greatly worthwhile book."
-- Kirkus
"Hall has a keen eye for colorful historical detail....Hall's writing, as a rule, is a pleasure to read. There is an exception to that rule. In the Sacagawea chapters, Hall makes an honorable attempt to express her thoughts using what look like crude word-for-word English renditions of her Shoshone language....[b]ut it's awfully tough to follow....To his credit, though, Hall's playful imagination occasionally overcomes even the burdens of Shoshone-speak." -- Bruce Barcott
-- New York Times Book Review
"It is the alternation of strange and excited voices...that combine to make I SHOULD BE EXTREMELY HAPPY IN YOUR COMPANY...a truly successful historical novel. It has its own energy, vision, and language." -- Gary Amdahl
-- Ruminator Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 2003
Size: 5.25 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 2.05 pounds
Pages: 682
Publisher's Notes
A fictionalized account based on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Ocean seeks to convey what was happening in the minds of the explorers and to bring life to the collision of white and Native American cultures of the period.
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I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series)
Brian Hall
Thorndike Press, Aug-03. LARGE PRINT, Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good. LARGE PRINT. Mild shelf wear on pictorial cover, library stamps, no markings in text. From Publishers Weekly: Though it joins a crowded field of Lewis and Clark narratives, this formidable third novel by Hall (The Saskiad) is not to be dismissed. Narrated in multiple distinct voices, this retelling of the story of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's legendary expedition is less a historical blow-by-blow than an engaging character study of the two men. Hall focuses on a few significant episodes in the journey-such as the hunting accident that wounds Lewis and causes him to sink into his famous depression-as seen through the eyes of Lewis, Sacagawea, Clark and Toussaint Charbonneau, Sacagawea's French fur trader husband. The result is a memorable portrait of the expedition leaders. Lewis is melancholy but ambitious and erudite, worried that he doesn't have the literary skill to render their adventures and discoveries. The sunnier Clark has the sensibility of an artist and the courage of a soldier, but he lacks the fortitude and discipline to build on his advantages. Hall is especially interested in the encounters between Native Americans and white explorers, and he details the violent struggles with Blackfeet Indians and others. Some readers may become frustrated with Sacagawea's stream-of-consciousness narration, in which proper nouns are not capitalized ("she remembered the raids in her own time, the one near beaver's head on blue crow's camp by the blackshoes when two bears' older brother (this one's bigfather), wolf tooth, was killed along with his son, chalk"), but the lyrical and precise prose will reward those who stick with it. In any case, such distractions are minor when measured against the rest of Hall's vivid, enthralling tableau.\nCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal: Hall starred in the Time cover story on Lewis and Clark, whose famed expedition celebrates its bicentennial in January. Here, the author of The Saskiad uses intimate portraiture to reconstruct the journey. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. ISBN: 0786255773. ( more information) Offered by Bizarre Books & Music (United States)
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