| The Diary of Mattie Spenser Contributor(s): Dallas, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312187106 ISBN-13: 9780312187101 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: The author of "The Persian Pickle Club" offers a "lively and engaging" ("Booklist") story of one woman's life on the American frontier that "gives a bright, fresh shading to the tragedies and small sharp joys of nineteenth-century frontier life" ("Kirkus"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96053926 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.2" W x 8.16" (0.49 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Colorado |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he left behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dallas, Sandra: - Award-winning author Sandra Dallas was dubbed "a quintessential American voice" by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. She is the author of The Bride's House, Whiter Than Snow, Prayers for Sale and Tallgrass, among others. Her novels have been translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. She is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award and the two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. For 25 years, Dallas worked as a reporter covering the Rocky Mountain region for Business Week, and started writing fiction in 1990. She lives with her husband in Denver, Colorado. |