Enemy Women - (P.S.) by Paulette Jiles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist <em>News of the World</em></strong> </p><p><strong>Good Morning America Book Club Pick</strong> </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Sure to be touted as a new COLD MOUNTAIN...stark, unsentimental, yet touching novel will not suffer in comparison."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"...beautifully written passages...a real page-turner."--<em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</em><br><br>"...[G]ifted Missouri historian...acutely portrays Missouri's logistic misfortune as a hotbed of both Union and Confederate violence."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"Comparing Enemy Women to Cold Mountain doesn't quite do Jiles's novel justice."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"Jiles has created an unsentimental yet tender world of destruction, despair, and hope that's a joy to inhabit."--<em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br><br>"This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence."--<em>New York Times</em><br><br>"Jiles paints the struggles of the era with the same intensity as Charles Frazier's 1997 bestseller Cold Mountain ..."--<em>People</em><br><br>"...remarkable happens...it becomes inspired... Adair becomes a storyteller in order to survive. And so - triumphantly - does Paulette Jiles."--New York Times Book Review (cover)<br><br>"A remarkable debut... Splendid."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<br><br>"Enemy Women is all strength and poetry, as are history's grandest ordinary women and extraordinary writing."--Kaye Gibbons<br><br>"ENEMY WOMEN deserves the Pulitzer Prize."--Toronto Globe and Mail<br><br>"ENEMY WOMEN...has a Homeresque feel to it. Like something written by an old soul."--Carolyn Chute<br><br>"I loved...it provides the greatest suspense a story can offer: will someone we've come to love persevere and prosper?"--Anna Quindlen<br><br>"You know what it means when there is Paulette Jiles inside? Be smart. Open the book."--Gordon Lish<br>
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