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The Scourges of Heaven: A Novel
David Dick
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Description for The Scourges of Heaven: A Novel
Paperback. This novel centers on Cynthia Anne Ferguson, orphaned aboard a vessel carrying immigrants, hopes, dreams - and cholera - from the Old World to the New. David Dick paints a world where the causes of disease are little understood, where faith is not always a comfort, and where unexpected death is frequently attributed to an angry God. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
A historical novel of prejudice and plague, The Scourges of Heaven sweeps gracefully, joyfully, painfully across centuries and generations. Through Cynthia Anne Ferguson, orphaned aboard a vessel carrying immigrants, hopes, dreams, and cholera from the Old World to the New, David Dick paints a world where the causes of disease are little understood, where faith is not always a comfort, where human questioning often goes unanswered, and where unexpected death is frequently attributed to the wrath of an angry God. Cynthia's story unfolds in the midst of the first of four great cholera epidemics to sweep America in the ... Read more
A historical novel of prejudice and plague, The Scourges of Heaven sweeps gracefully, joyfully, painfully across centuries and generations. Through Cynthia Anne Ferguson, orphaned aboard a vessel carrying immigrants, hopes, dreams, and cholera from the Old World to the New, David Dick paints a world where the causes of disease are little understood, where faith is not always a comfort, where human questioning often goes unanswered, and where unexpected death is frequently attributed to the wrath of an angry God. Cynthia's story unfolds in the midst of the first of four great cholera epidemics to sweep America in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813190976
SKU
V9780813190976
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99-50
About David Dick
David Dick, Emmy-Award-winning CBS news correspondent and former director of the School of Journalism at the University of Kentucky, is the author of many books, including Follow the Storm: A Long Way Home and The View From Plum Lick.
Reviews for The Scourges of Heaven: A Novel
Like a latter-day Voltaire, Dick takes us on a Candide-like adventure through the violence, prejudices, injustices, superstitions, greed, and occasional enlightenments and reforms of the mid-nineteenth century. - Wade Hall