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West : a novel

Title

West : a novel / Carys Davies.

Author

Davies, Carys

Publication

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFD 18-4472	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Description

149 pages; 22 cm

Summary

When widower John Cyrus Bellman learns of colossal animal bones found in Kentucky, he leaves his daughter on their Pennsylvania farm and heads west in search of the unknown animals.
"When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west. With only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mother's gold ring to call her own, Bess, unprotected and approaching womanhood, fills lonely days tracing her father's route on maps at the subscription library and waiting for his letters to arrive. Bellman, meanwhile, wanders farther and farther from home, across harsh and alien landscapes, in reckless pursuit of the unknown" --

Subjects

Genre/Form

Call Number

JFD 18-4472

ISBN

LCCN

2018055800

OCLC

1031091127

Author

Davies, Carys, author.

Title

West : a novel / Carys Davies.

Publisher

New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018.

Copyright Date

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Research Call Number

JFD 18-4472