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Turpentine

Title
Turpentine / Spring Warren.
Author
Warren, Spring.
Publication
New York : Black Cat, [2007], ©2007.

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Description
420 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"At once a comic glance at the old American West and a serious story about transformation and redemption, Turpentine is the literary debut from Spring Warren. Warren delivers a story about a young man's attempt to make sense of the past while unsteadily growing into adulthood." "The year is 1871, and Edward Turrentine Bayard III, sick and restless, leaves his Connecticut home to recover our west. But when the private sanitarium in which he is to stay proves to be nothing more than a rickery outpost on the Nebraskan plains, he becomes a buffalo skinner. After returning to the East, Ned teams up with Phaegin, who earns her money rolling cigars, and Curly, a fourteen-year-old coal miner, but the newfound trio is wrongly accused of triggering a bomb at a labor rally, and they must flee. With a Pinkerton agent following their every move, the gang of winsome ne'er-do-wells takes flight on a circuitous escape that takes them through northern outposts into Indian country, past the slums of Chicago, and into the boundless Great Plains. En route they become witness to the transformation and growing pains of a burgeoning nation."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Historical fiction.
ISBN
  • 9780802170361
  • 0802170366
OCLC
  • ocn164900505
  • 164900505
  • SCSB-5364324
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries