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The Snow Child
''The Snow Child'' is the debut novel by Eowyn Ivey. It was first published on February 1, 2012, by Little, Brown and Company. The novel was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was generally well received by critics. ''The Snow Child'' is set in the 1920s and follows Jack and Mabel, a childless older couple struggling as homesteaders in the Alaskan wilderness. The sudden emergence of a young girl from the woods changes their lives. Synopsis Jack and Mabel long to have a child of their own, but after burying their newborn baby, they are forced to give up that dream. Desperate for a change of scene, the middle-aged couple moves from their farm in Pennsylvania to Alpine, Alaska where they want to set up a homestead, clear out the trees, and build the land for farming. Unfortunately, this goal isn't as easy as it seems. Feeling down on their luck due to their lack of money, the couple has to find joy wherever they can. They end up making friends with their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey is an American author based in Alaska. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel '' The Snow Child''. Life and career Ivey was raised in Alaska. Her mother named her after Éowyn, a character from The Lord of the Rings. She attended Palmer High School and studied at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Ivey was a newspaper reporter at the ''Frontiersman'' in Wasilla for a decade before quitting her job to work as bookseller in order to focus on writing novels. Her first novel, ''The Snow Child'', is set in 1920s Alaska. The book is centred around a couple called Jack and Mabel who begin seeing a girl running through the Alaskan wilderness after they sculpt a child out of snow. Her second book, ''To the Bright Edge of the World'' is set in 1885 and also in Alaska. The story is told through journal entries, military reports, letters and documents. The plot follows an expedition funded by the US government into the Alask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juneau, Alaska
The City and Borough of Juneau, more commonly known simply as Juneau ( ; tli, Dzánti K'ihéeni ), is the capital city of the state of Alaska. Located in the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle, it is a unified municipality and the second- largest city in the United States by area. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware. Downtown Juneau () is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2020 census, the City and Borough had a population of 32,255, making it the third-most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage and Fairbanks. Juneau experiences a daily influx o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In Forests
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
