Mary Doria Russell
Autor/a de The Sparrow
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Obres de Mary Doria Russell
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1950-08-19
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lyndhurst, Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Educació
- University of Illinois (BA | Cultural Anthropology)
Northeastern University (MA | Social Anthropology)
University of Michigan (PhD | Biological Anthropology) - Professions
- novelist
paleoanthropologist - Premis i honors
- John W. Campbell Award (Best New Writer, 1998)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (1998) - Agent
- Jane Dystel
Membres
Converses
Ellen (ebt1002) Reads On in 2016 - Chapter 10 a 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (octubre 2016)
!/4 way through THE SPARROW and am already blown away a Science Fiction Fans (maig 2014)
Ressenyes
Llistes
THE WAR ROOM (1)
Off on a Quest (1)
1990s (1)
Monastic life (1)
Read This Next (1)
Unread books (1)
To Read (1)
Nineties (1)
Christianity (2)
Female Author (2)
Carole's List (2)
First Novels (1)
Five star books (1)
Shelf 101 (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Put a Bird On It (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 16,274
- Popularitat
- #1,395
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 1,025
- ISBN
- 101
- Llengües
- 8
- Preferit
- 110
The novel begins with this arresting opening: “He began to die when he was twenty-one...”
Born in Georgia just prior to the Civil War and growing up in its aftermath, Holliday studies to become a dentist, but contracts tuberculosis and is sent West to try to take advantage of the drier air. Here he supplements his meagre income from his dental practice by becoming a card sharp.
Russell’s depiction of the unromantic reality of the ‘Wild West’ and the ravages of tuberculosis on Holliday appear to be well-researched and clearly described. The range of characters around him, including real-life figures the Earp brothers; the prostitute Kate Harony; Bob Wright, the outfitter making himself a fortune; and many others, are supplemented by imagined characters such as Father Alexander von Angensperg, a Jesuit bringing the Gospel to the Native Americans.
Throw into this mix the mystery surrounding the death of a young mixed-race man who Holliday had been mentoring, and you have a fascinating novel.… (més)