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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY is actually the third fictional account I have read about Lorena "Hick" Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt. And, I would, without any problems, read at least three more. I find both women fascinating to read about and I like reading new books that take a different look at their relationship. READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW OVER AT FRESH FICTION! A beautifully written book that captures the soul of a relationship. It’s told through the eyes of Lorena ’Hick’ Hickok, an intimate friend of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and, at one point, the country’s best known female reporter. Her conflicted feelings about covering the First Lady for the Associated Press as she became emotionally involved are touchingly rendered and, even though the author clearly takes some narrative license, the words and actions between the two women never step beyond the bounds of propriety. I thought Lorena’s fieldwork for FDR’s Emergency Relief program and the poverty she encountered as an investigator was the most interesting part of the book even though it wasn’t its main topic. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York and Washington to Scotts Run, West Virginia, where impoverished coal miners' families wait in fear that the New Deal's promised hope will pass them by. Together, Eleanor and Hick imagine how the new town of Arthurdale could change the fate of hundreds of lives. But doing what is right does not come cheap, and Hick will pay in ways she never could have imagined. Undiscovered Country artfully mixes fact and fiction to portray the intense relationship between this unlikely pair. Inspired by the historical record, including the more than three thousand letters Hick and Eleanor exchanged over a span of thirty years, McNees tells this story through Hick's tough, tender, and unforgettable voice. A remarkable portrait of Depression-era America, this novel tells the poignant story of how a love that was forced to remain hidden nevertheless changed history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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