Ebook {Epub PDF} The Purchase by Linda Spalding

The Purchase. The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in , when Daniel Dickinson and his young family are exiled from their native Quaker community, and goes on to chronicle Daniel’s attempt to master his pride in a new landscape. His stewardship is made tortuously vulnerable by Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Linda Spalding has 18 books on Goodreads with ratings. Linda Spalding’s most popular book is The Purchase.  · The Purchase by Linda Spalding is about Daniel Dickinson, a Quaker living at the turn of the nineteenth century, who is excommunicated after his wife dies and he marries Ruth, the fifteen year old Methodist orphan living with his family as a servant/5.

Linda Spalding was born and raised in Kansas. She is the author of three previous novels and two acclaimed works of nonfiction, A Dark Place in the Jungle, which was short-listed for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Non-Fiction Prize, and Who Named the www.doorway.ru Purchase received Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. Check out this great listen on www.doorway.ru In Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker, sets out with two horses, a wagon full of belongings, his five children and a year-old orphan wife. When Daniel suddenly trades a horse for a young slave, Onesimus, it sets in motion a struggle in his conscie. Curiously, The Purchase is the second GG winner in a row to take place in 18th century America, though Spalding's novel, set in the wake of the War of Independence, begins about 50 years earlier.

Linda Spalding Author Biography. Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, The Purchase (awarded Canada's Governor General's Literary Award), Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. The Purchase by Linda Spalding is about Daniel Dickinson, a Quaker living at the turn of the nineteenth century, who is excommunicated after his wife dies and he marries Ruth, the fifteen year old Methodist orphan living with his family as a servant. The Purchase, by Linda Spalding, which won Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Fiction in , shares many of the strengths of The Outlander: narrative daring; many passages of pure poetry, all of it belied by a touching modesty. Although Spalding (who is married to the novelist Michael Ondaatje) has lived in Canada for thirty years, she is American and her book could not be any more American.