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Title: One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel by Jim Fergus ISBN: 0-312-19943-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (105 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Touching Fictional Account of Historical Event
Comment: A woman in an unhappy life takes the opportunity to partake in a government program to pacify American Indians by sending 1000 white women to be their wives. She falls in love with a military officer involved in delivering the women, but grows to learn about the pride, strength, and dignity of the "noble savages" and is caught in between the white and Indian cultures. The characters are not wholly realized, but the emotional touch points are all there.
Rating: 4
Summary: Engrossing and Entertaining
Comment: Unlike other reviewers, I bought the plausability of this story. Either way, this is a strong piece of literature that will stay with you long after you've finished. After her family commits her to a mental institution, May Dodd is desolate and looking for any way to escape. The oppurtunity arises when the US government comes looking for "fertile women of the child bearing age" to marry to Native Americans. May Dodd immediately decides to take them up on this offer and is soon off on the adventure of her life. The basic story of the novel is interesting in itself but the best part of it was the characters. All of the women that goes with May are strong and independent women, even if they don't seem like it at first. I grew to love all of them. This book made me laugh, cry, and learn a little bit.
Rating: 4
Summary: Forget plausibility - just read for fun
Comment: Putting aside the implausible plot of this novel, it is really a pretty good read. Once I got past the premise, I really enjoyed reading about the life of May Dodd who seemed to become more and more real. The descriptions of life in the tepee, the smells of daily living, the horrible violence of the frontier all become very real. No one is a clear cut "bad guy" (except perhaps for the strange half-breed Jules ? , and even the most noble savage has a frightening side. I especially liked the ending -- meeting the offspring of May years after.
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Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett ISBN: 0060934417 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Pope Joan (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Donna Woolfolk Cross ISBN: 0345416260 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke ISBN: 0385722206 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger ISBN: 0802139256 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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