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The scourges of heaven : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0813158400
- ISBN: 9780813158402
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (332 pages)
remote - Publisher: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004, ©1998.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Owl Hollow, Kentucky, October 1998; London, England, April 1833; London, Dockside, April 1833; Bishop Rock, April 1833; The Sargasso Sea, May 1833; New Orleans, May 1833; The Mississippi and the Ohio, May 1833; Washington, Kentucky, June 1833; Paris and Lexington, Kentucky, June 1833; Lexington, June 1833; Owl Hollow, Kentucky, 1833-1840; Owl Hollow, 1844; Owl Hollow, 1852; New Orleans, 1855; Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, October 1998; Afterword; Acknowledgments. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Immigrants -- Fiction Orphans -- Fiction Kentucky -- Fiction Cholera -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Fiction. Historical fiction. Electronic books. Electronic books. |
Summary:
A historical novel of prejudice and plague, The Scourges of Heaven sweeps gracefully, joyfully, painfully across centuries and generations. Through Cynthia Anne Ferguson, orphaned aboard a vessel carrying immigrants, hopes, dreams, and cholera from the Old World to the New, David Dick paints a world where the causes of disease are little understood, where faith is not always a comfort, where human questioning often goes unanswered, and where unexpected death is frequently attributed to the wrath of an angry God. Cynthia's story unfolds in the midst of the first of four great cholera epidemics.
