EAN: 9780142180365

TRACY CHEVALIER - GEBRAUCHT THE LAST RUNAWAY A ...

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard
Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway 
bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles  passions and
realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright  a modest English
Quaker  moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick
from the moment she leaves England  and fleeing personal disappointment  she is forced by
family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh  unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century
America is practical  precarious  and unsentimental  and scarred by the continuing injustice of
slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little  even within a
religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However  Honor is drawn into the
clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad  a network helping runaway slaves escape to
freedom  where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance.
Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in  whatever the personal
costs.

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