Sarah Canary - Softcover

Fowler, Karen Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821740881 ISBN 13: 9780821740880

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 1993

Synopsis

Chin Ah Kin, a Chinese man laboring in a railway workers' camp in the Washington territory of 1873, leaves his work to accompany Sarah Canary, a mysterious young woman, back to her home. Reprint.

About this title

From the Publisher:

I finished this book and was so knocked out by it that I turned right back to the first page and started it all over again!

Eileen Gaffney, Associate Managing Editor

From the Back Cover:

The Washington Territory, 1873. The woman who appeared without warning in the forest clearing was small, dressed all in black, and of indeterminate age. Her hair was cropped and she was babbling in some incomprehensible tongue. Chin Ah Kin thought she might be a ghost-lover--an immortal sent by the gods to enchant him. His more practical uncle thought otherwise: a white woman in a Chinese railway workers' camp could only be trouble. He ordered Chin to return her to her white world. Thus begins Sarah Canary, Karen Joy Fowler's bewitching odyssey of the Old West that speaks across a hundred years of American experience. As Sarah Canary and her raging entourage move across the green landscape of the Pacific Northwest, each new encounter with America's boisterous frontier offers intriguing insights into the extravagant myths and legends of the past which have evolved into the pillars of our national heritage. Part adventure story, part history lesson, part flight of marvelous fantasy, Sarah Canary achieves that true rarity of excellence: a novel of ideas and wit that can raise tears as well as laughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0821740881
• ISBN 13: 9780821740880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384