The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tracy Chevalier
• Title: The Last Runaway
• Publisher: ‎ Dutton
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 305 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0525952993
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0525952992
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.25 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (minimal discoloration of the page edges). Good condition is defined as a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages and cover are intact and the cover is in excellent condition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. 

Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850–only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. 

However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.

About the Author:

Tracy Chevalier is the author of 10 novels, including the international bestseller GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, which has sold over 5 million copies and been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.

American by birth, British by geography, she lives in London with her husband and son.

Her latest novel, A SINGLE THREAD, tells the story of an English woman between the Wars who forges an independent life in Winchester.

Tracy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has honorary doctorates from her alma maters Oberlin College and the University of East Anglia.

Her website www.tchevalier.com will tell you more about her and her books.