Linda Spalding, Author . Pantheon $23.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-375-42476-2
In June 1978, Larry Hasker was murdered in Hawaii. Maryann Acker was convicted of the crime in 1982 and sentenced to life in prison. In this sparkling account, noted Canadian novelist Spalding creates a nuanced, deeply felt tale of her own...
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Linda Spalding, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $22.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56512-226-0
In 1995, novelist Spalding (The Paper Wife) traveled to Indonesia with her two daughters to work on a book about orangutan researcher Birut Galdikas, who, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, was a prot g e of anthropologist Louis Leakey. That...
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Linda Spalding, Author L. & O. Dennys $0 (217p) ISBN 978-0-88619-171-9
The haunting tone and exotic ambience of this first novel draw the reader through the subtle, mysterious story to a shockingly swift denouement. Kansas-born Jesse Quill, trailing her own emotional emptiness, and her husband, Paul, are living on the...
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Linda Spalding, Author Ecco Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88001-453-3
The clear, lyrical surface of Spalding's luminous second novel (after Daughters of Captain Cook) belies the powerful story it relates. Set in Colorado and Mexico, the complex but concise tale traces the close friendship of two girls: beautiful,...
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Linda Spalding. Pantheon, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-90841-4
This novel of frontier life focuses on one family’s attempt to meet the challenges of antebellum America. At the beginning of the 19th century, widower Daniel Dickinson, cast out of his Quaker community, travels from Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley
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Linda Spalding. Pantheon, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4700-8
Spalding’s excellent fifth novel, after The Purchase, is a drama set in the late 1850s as conflicts over slavery and abolition tear apart a Virginia plantation family. The Dickinson farm is run by two half-brothers: Benjamin, a brutal slave owner,...
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