Bibliograph

Flight of the sparrow, a novel of early America, Amy Belding Brown

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Flight of the sparrow, a novel of early America, Amy Belding Brown

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Flight of the sparrow

Oclc number

858610731

Responsibility statement

Amy Belding Brown

Sub title

a novel of early America

Summary

A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life

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