by Jane Smiley · Alfred A. Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780679450740
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«The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton» is the historical novel by Jane Smiley, published by Knopf in hardcover (452 pages, in English).
In the 1850s, Lidie Harkness, a young woman from Illinois, marries an abolitionist and settles in the Kansas Territory, where the struggle between slaveholders and free-state supporters turns violent. When the violence reaches her inner circle, Lidie disguises herself as a man and crosses into Missouri in search of those responsible.
Originally published in 1998, it is the first installment of the «Lidie Newton» series and won the Spur Award in 1999 for best Western novel.
A novel for book clubs and for readers of historical fiction interested in the abolitionist conflict before the Civil War.
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
