All God's Children - Softcover

Eidson, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140256180 ISBN 13: 9780140256185

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

All the poor blind seamstress needs is a little money and a few honest breaks in order to raise four sons on her own whole holding on to the family farm. What she doesn't count on is a petty thief breaking into her house to evade capture. Instead of turning him in, she decides to safeguard him from a lynching posse. Now with the entire town against her and a crooked gang out to drive her off her land, it's up to this two-bit-thief, inspired by her sense of justice, to become a protector and fighter...even with the odds completely against him... Â In the "New York Times" bestselling tradition of Zane Gray, Larry McMurtry, and Cormac McCarthy. Â Film rights for All God's Children has been optioned by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks. Â Thomas Eidson is also author of "St. Agnes' Stand" and "The Last Ride" Â "St. Agnes' Stand" also won the Best First Novel and Best Western Novel from the Western Writers of America. Â "St. Agnes' Stand" won the "Thumping" Good Fiction Award from W.H. Smith in the U.K. and was shortlisted for the "Sunday Express" Book of the Year Award. Â Film rights for "St. Agnes' Stand have been sold to Miramax, and will be directed by Michael Winterbottom. Â We have another novel coming from Thomas Eidson.

About this title

Synopsis:

Pearl Eddy is a Quaker living in a Methodist town, struggling to raise her four young sons. She has built up a business as a seamstress, tending a small farm in the Kansas Prairies. But when a black bare-knuckle fighter takes refuge from a mob in her cellar, she risks all that she has.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140256180
• ISBN 13: 9780140256185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320