![]() Homestead, a book of short stories written under the pseudonym Rosina Lippi Green, was published by Delphinium. ![]() Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page. and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. (Aug.) FYI: This novel is Donati's debut under her own name. Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place. The many subplots are skillfully interwoven, and the author's sheer stamina commands respect but the novel is complicated, not complex, overstuffed with familiar, featherweight themes. Nathaniel is the only thoroughly admirable white male in the huge cast-upbringing having triumphed over blood-and no person of color has flaws. Worse, the characters are color-by-numbers cartoons. Then the charm falters as their adventures are padded with details that embroider without embellishing. Through his travels he transforms from a willful recent graduate, eager to break away from his stifling. McCandlesss journey into the wilderness is ultimately one of self-discovery and reinvention. At first they are an enchanting couple, shooting at bad guys and making athletic love in unlikely woodsy settings. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Into the Wild, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Dependence in the Wilderness was written to lead you to greater faith in God as you experience the ordinary or arid wilderness journeys of your life. Nathaniel wants Judge Middleton's land, too, for his adoptive people-but, unlike Todd, he also wants Lizzie for herself. One look at rugged Nathaniel Bonner, a Scotsman raised by Mohawks (they call him Between-Two-Lives), and Lizzie scuttles her feminist disdain for marriage and her father's calculations. Richard Todd and fulfill both men's ambitions for property. When Elizabeth Middleton, a proud spinster of 29, arrives in upstate Paradise, N.Y., after a sheltered life in England with her titled aunt, she means to live with her father, Alfred, a judge, and her wastrel brother, Julian, and teach school. Alas, Donati offers less wit and more cant than her celebrated precursor in a hefty volume that is politically correct to a fare-thee-well, suggesting that the author hoped single-handedly to reverse all race and gender bias. Claire Fraser, Gabaldon's time-traveling physician heroine, even makes a cameo appearance as a battlefield surgeon. Epic in ambition, heaving-bosomed and lavish with pioneer life, Donati's debut inevitably invites comparison to the Revolutionary War-era romances of Diana Gabaldon.
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