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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Viking Pr
Publication date
May 3, 2011
Pages
306
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780670021048
ISBN-10
0670021040
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
Original list price
$26.95
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Year of Wonders | The Secret Chord | News of the World | March | People of the Book | Year of Wonders | People of the Book
Year of Wonders | The Secret Chord | News of the World | March | People of the Book | Year of Wonders | People of the Book
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.
The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.
Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.
The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.
Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (May 4, 2011)
9781410437341 | details & prices | 539 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $35.99
About: A New York Times Bestselling Author , A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College.
About: A New York Times Bestselling Author , A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Viking Pr (May 3, 2011)
9780670021048 | details & prices | 306 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.
About: Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.
from Harpercollins Pub Ltd (April 28, 2011)
9780007333530 | details & prices | 320 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.34 lbs | List price $27.50
About: The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March,, 'Year of Wonders, and 'People of the Book,.
About: The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March,, 'Year of Wonders, and 'People of the Book,.
Paperback
Large print edition from Large Print Pr (April 28, 2012)
9781594135347 | details & prices | 537 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $17.99
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (April 24, 2012)
9780143121077 | details & prices | 318 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.00
Miscellaneous
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 3, 2011)
9781441790217 | details & prices | List price $59.99
About: Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.
About: Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life.
CD/Spoken Word
With Jennifer Ehle (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Penguin/Highbridge (May 3, 2011)
9780142429709 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.75 × 1.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours Read by TBA A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.
About: Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours Read by TBA A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.
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