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The Purchase (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804173261)
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Linda Spalding
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xWinner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction
Pennsylvania, 1798. Daniel Dickinson, a devout Quaker, has just lost his wife. When he marries a fifteen-year-old Methodist orphan to help with his five small children, his fellow Quakers disown him for his impropriety. Forced out of the only community he's ever known, Daniel moves his family to the Virginia frontier. He has in hand a few land warrants, with which he plans to establish his new homestead.Although determined to hold to his Quaker belief in abolitionism, Daniel is now in a slave state, and he soon finds himself the owner of a young boy named Onesimus. This fatal purchase sets in motion a twisted chain of events that will forever change his children's lives--and his own. An unforgettable story of sacrifice and redemption, The Purchase powerfully explores questions of fate, faith, loyalty, and conscience.
Author: Linda Spalding
ISBN-10: 0804173265
ISBN-13: 9780804173261
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.42h x 4.73w x 0.74d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 155420 / Purchase
By Linda Spalding
xLinda 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 Knife. The Purchase received Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. Spalding lives in Toronto, where she is an editor of Brick magazine.
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