Enemy Women (P.S.) - Softcover

Críticas

"ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul."--Carolyn Chute

"Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that's a joy to inhabit."--Entertainment Weekly

"Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history's grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing."--Kaye Gibbons

"Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier's 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain ..."--People

"A remarkable debut... Splendid."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize."--Toronto Globe and Mail

"This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence."--New York Times

"Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn't quite do Jiles's novel justice."--Washington Post

"You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book."--Gordon Lish

"I loved...it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we've come to love persevere and prosper?"--Anna Quindlen

Reseña del editor

From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World

Good Morning America Book Club Pick

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.

But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.

Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.