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Enemy Women
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Enemy Women Paperback - 2007

by Jiles, Paulette

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  • Title Enemy Women
  • Author Jiles, Paulette
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 2007-04-10
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003282760
  • ISBN 9780061337635 / 0061337633
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.37 x 0.84 in (20.37 x 13.64 x 2.13 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Young women
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

E-book extra: Reading group guide.The acclaimed Civil War saga about a young woman arrested on charges of "enemy collaboration," the Union major who loves and frees her, and her quest for a home that may have ... vanished.From critically acclaimed, award-winning poet and memoirist Paulette Jiles comes a debut novel of startling power and savage beauty -- an extraordinary story of survival and love in the midst of a torn nation's bitter agony.

First line

It was the third year of the war and by now there was hardly anybody left in the country except the woman and the children.

From the rear cover

For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison.

But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.

Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.

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