The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0062356348
- ISBN 13
- 9780062356345
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Custom House/William Morrow, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Christina Baker Kline on the publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine ends gently pushed and a tiny bump to bottom of front board. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) with a faint crease to the spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
The author of Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women's lives in nineteenth-century Australia.
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land.
During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel -- a skilled midwife and herbalist – is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors.
Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land.
In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3109
- Title
- The Exiles
- Author
- Christina Baker Kline
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0062356348
- ISBN 13
- 9780062356345
- Publisher
- Custom House / William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- historical, cultural Australian, Australia, friendship, aborigines, penal colony
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- First Editions; Signed Books;
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