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The 19th Wife: The gripping Richard and Judy bookclub page turner

The 19th Wife: The gripping Richard and Judy bookclub page turner

Name: The 19th Wife: The gripping Richard and Judy bookclub page turner
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: David Ebershoff
ISBN: 9780552774987

David Ebershoff

28/01/2009
Black Swan

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Couverture de The 19th Wife: The gripping Richard and Judy bookclub page turner par David Ebershoff

Résumé

Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime. Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were drawn into plural marriage, and how she herself battled for her freedom and escaped her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives: a pageturning literary mystery and an enthralling epic of love and faith.