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News of the World : A Novel / Paulette Jiles.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062409212
- ISBN: 9780062409218
- ISBN: 0063052504
- ISBN: 9780063052505
- ISBN: 9780063011953
- ISBN: 0063011956
- ISBN: 9780062409201
- ISBN: 0062409204
- Physical Description: 212 pages, 18 pages : maps ; 19 cm
- Edition: First William Morrow paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes group discussion guides. Includes P.S.: insights, interviews & more ... |
| Awards Note: | National Book Award finalist, 2016 |
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| Subject: | Voyages and travels > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Kiowa Indians > Fiction. Indian captivities > Fiction. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Veterans > Fiction. Texas > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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| Montgomery City Public Library | F JIL (Text) | 31927000006202 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
News of the World : A Novel
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News of the World : A Novel
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, drifts through northern Texas, performing live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world--of the Irish pouring into New York City, of the railroad driving into the new state of Nebraska. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain once made his living as a printer, until the War Between the States took his press and everything with it. Now, at seventy-one, he enjoys the freedom of the road. At a stop in Wichita Falls, Captain Kidd is offered an astonishing $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives near San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders viciously killed Johanna Leonberger's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently recovered by the U.S. army, the inconsolable ten-year-old with blue eyes and hair the color of maple sugar has once again been torn away from the only home and family she knows. The captain's sense of duty and compassion propels him to accept, though he knows the journey will be difficult. Winding through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain, the 400-mile odyssey south proves dangerous. A corrupt Reconstruction government runs the state government, and anarchy and lawlessness has taken hold. The captain must watch for thieves, Comanche and Kiowa, and the federal army--and corral the wild Johanna who has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the wary Johanna slowly draws closer to the man she calls Kep-dun, and the two lonely survivors forge a tender bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
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