Below is their press release information:
THE GREAT MEADOW
Elizabeth
Madox Roberts
Introduction
by competition winner
Michael
Wynne
31
October 2012
9781843913887
B
format PB
200pp
£8.99
Hesperus
Press is very proud to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this
autumn.
To honour
the occasion, In June 2012 Hesperus Press launched a competition asking members
of the public to nominate one out-of-print book they would like to see back in
print.
The winning
book, which will be published in October 2012 by Hesperus is
The Great Meadow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts.
First
published in 1930 and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, The Great Meadow is a historical novel set in the early days of
Kentucky settlement. Intertwined with a flowing romantic saga of young love on
the Kentucky trail, are richly painted scenes colonial America.
Diony
Hall has waited for many years for her betrothed to return to marry her. Trying
to fathom the nature of identity and her place in the vast newly created
America, Diony spends her time at the family hearthside, combining her love of
reading with her roles within the family circle and the daily tasks on the
homestead. When Berk Jarvis returns and they are married, they both bid
farewell to Virginia, family, community and security to head out to found a new
family and a new life together in the wilderness of Kentucky
What
follows is a breathtaking story of love and death, as the settlers cross the
Appalachian mountains and struggle to carve a new life on the unforgiving
frontier at the mercy of shortages, harsh winters and the perpetual danger of
Indian attack. This astonishing novel, with its rhythmic prose, has too long
been forgotten
The
winning entry came from Michael Wynne and the new Hesperus edition of The Great Meadow will contain a 500 word
introduction written by him.
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