I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark - Softcover

Hall, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142003719 ISBN 13: 9780142003718

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2003

Synopsis

Brian Hall's compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark's extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants' lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices--from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl-captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. Bringing the day-to-day life of the expedition alive as no work of history ever could, Hall's magnificent novel fills in the gaps and provides a new perspective on the most famous journey in American history.

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Review:

"Artful layering and flawless pacing transform a monolithic legend into a quixotic, heartbreaking story, one you enter rather than salute." --The Boston Globe

"Hall, a spellbinding prose stylist, writes with the kind of ethereal poetic sweep found in the historical novels of Michael Ondaatje and Wallace Stegner." --Los Angeles Times

"Fascinating, multifaceted . . . Hall's magnum opus of a historical novel makes hugely enterprising use of firsthand accounts of the pioneering journey." --The New York Times

About the Author:

Brian Hall is the author of three novels, including I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, his acclaimed story of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as three works of nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142003719
• ISBN 13: 9780142003718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432