Gary Moore

Broschiertes Buch

ABE & ANN

a novel

Beschreibung

"This lyrical novel of the young Lincoln in love not only kept me turning the pages until the wee hours of the night, it also grabbed me as all the best stories do, less a tapestry of a particular time than a universal story of what it means to love and to lose. Gary Moore has written a moving tribute to how the most intimate of experiences can forever change us, and sometimes change the world." Thomas Christopher Greene, author of The Headmaster's Wife and The Perfect Liar ABE & ANN brings to life Abraham Lincoln's passionate romance with Ann Rutledge when he was young and timid and hopelessly in love. Years later he would be enthroned in Washington after saving democracy, his wisdom and greatness legendary. Was it all because of a woman? Auburn-haired Ann Rutledge, feisty and fed-up with propriety, is frontier royalty, the 18-year-old daughter of the founder of the village where the 22-year-old Lincoln comes looking for work. She is lively and literate and funny, and Abe is homely and poor, but full of high ambition. Lincoln courts the dazzling red-haired woman who comes into his life like a revelation. In the spell of their feelings, the lovers question the limits in their lives and boldly dream of a better future. But she is engaged to another man. Readers who enjoyed Doris Kearns Goodwin's bestselling Lincoln book Team of Rivals, Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film Lincoln, and George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo will marvel again at this very different and compelling tale of Lincoln as a young man. Not a grand historical treatment but a lyrical telling of a deeply personal tale, ABE & ANN dares to give readers an earnest but untutored Lincoln whose humanity every reader can share, who was weak before he was strong, frightened before he was bold, and deeply in love with a woman whose admiration confirmed the greatness growing within him. (More information: www.garymoore.news)

Autor

Playwright and poet Gary Moore has taught writing in a dozen colleges and universities on three continents and has presented Lincoln-themed performance pieces for more than thirty years. His bi-lingual musical in Shanghai, The Great Emancipator Meets The Monkey King, introduced rap-music to the People's Republic of China six months before Tiananmen Square. His play based on that experience, Burning in China, sold out at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival after being featured in The New York Times and recommended by The New Yorker. He is the former Academic Dean at Vermont College of Fine Arts. To learn more about Gary, visit his website: www.garymoore.news, or email him at: [e-mail].

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Komatik Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780998711379
• ISBN-10: 0998711373
• Artikelnr.: 56521827