Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Purchase by Linda Spalding (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Linda Spalding has 18 books on Goodreads with ratings. Linda Spalding’s most popular book is The Purchase. · The Purchase by Linda Spalding is about Daniel Dickinson, a Quaker living at the turn of the nineteenth century, who is excommunicated after his wife dies and he marries Ruth, the fifteen year old Methodist orphan living with his family as a servant/5.
Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, The Purchase (awarded Canada's Governor General's Literary Award), Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. The Purchase by Linda Spalding _____ About the author: Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, often explores world cultures and the clash between contemporary life and traditional beliefs. Her most recent book, The Purchase, won the Governor General's Literary Prize for Fiction. "Based in part on the author's family history, Linda Spalding's The Purchase is a compassionately told story of slavery and redemption, set in late 18 th century Virginia.. Daniel Dickinson, a Pennsylvania Quaker, has been cast out of his community for marrying a 15 year-old orphan girl after the death of his wife.
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Purchase by Linda Spalding (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. The Purchase is a story of a young widower who is driven by circumstance to move to the American frontier (Western Virginia in the late 's). Responsible for his own young children and almost-equally-young new wife, he knows little of what he is getting into. Linda Spalding has 18 books on Goodreads with ratings. Linda Spalding’s most popular book is The Purchase.
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