BECKY: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher - Hardcover

Lenore Hart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312373279 ISBN 13: 9780312373276

Publisher: St Martins Press, 2008

Synopsis

Becky Thatcher would like to set the record straight. She was not the weeping ninny Mark Twain made her out to be. Yes, she was Tom Sawyer's childhood sweetheart, but the real story of the love they shared, and the terrible secret that tore them apart, never made it into Twain's novels. Becky had her reasons for marrying Tom's half-brother Sid...all women have their reasons.Bold and brave beyond the expectations of her sex, this wildly conflicted wife and mother struggles to reconcile her womanly obligations with her fiercely independent spirit. Becky searches for fulfilment and passion, but is haunted by the lies she's told and the men she's betrayed. Can she ever forget the sweet-talking, maddening Tom Sawyer, or is theirs a love for the ages...and the storybooks?

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Review:

"In this old-fashioned, new-fangled adventure story, Hart re-imagines and expands on Becky Thatcher...In an episodic style not so different from Twain's, she presents the "real-life" adventures of this tenacious and clever survivor. This is a hefty, vigorous, and engaging work-nothing dainty about it!" -SHERI REYNOLDS, AUTHOR OF FIREFLY CLOAK"

About the Author:

Lenore Hart is the author of "Ordinary Springs, ""Waterwoman, " and other novels. Her work has been featured on Voice of America, in "Poets & Writers Magazine, " and on the PBS series "Writer to Writer." She teaches creative writing at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and Old Dominion University in Virginia. She lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with her husband, novelist David Poyer, and their daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312373279
• ISBN 13: 9780312373276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416