{"product_id":"the-land-breakers-9781590177631","title":"The Land Breakers","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, \u003ci\u003eThe Land Breakers\u003c\/i\u003e is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the mountain world--one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity--and begin to make a world of their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMooney and Imy are the first to confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Ehle is a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established \u003ci\u003eThe Land Breakers\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590177631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 4.06w x 0.77d","brand":"John Ehle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43418387808437,"sku":"9781590177631","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_78caba9f-9330-4bd5-becd-1637fc93164c.jpg?v=1703004869","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-land-breakers-9781590177631","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}