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Ursula, Under Trade paperback - 2005
by Ingrid Hill
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- Paperback
This remarkable debut novel opens with a two-year-old girl trapped in an abandoned mine shaft, then travels back through history to trace the extraordinary lives of her most unusual and surprising ancestors.
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- Title Ursula, Under
- Author Ingrid Hill
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 476
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date June 2005
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 467979
- ISBN 9780143035459 / 0143035452
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.3 x 1.12 in (20.37 x 13.46 x 2.84 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Suspense fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
In response, the novel takes a breathtaking leap back in time to visit Ursula's most remarkable ancestors: a third-century-B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned playmate of a seventeenth-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer (on exotic Chinese topics) traveling the Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century; her great-great-grandfather Jake Maki, who died at twenty-nine in a Michigan iron mine cave-in; and others whose richness and history are contained in the induplicable DNA of just one person—little Ursula Wong.
Ursula's story echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that her very existence—like ours—comes to seem a miracle. Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining—a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity.
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- Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 79