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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ann Weisgarber
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 131
Category/GenreHistorical fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781447203377
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Pan Books
Publication Date 8 November 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A stunning novel about love, loyalty and homeland Shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and longlisted for the Orange Prize It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this unforgiving land. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle bellow with thirst, and supplies are dwindling. Pregnant, and struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She is determined to give her surviving children the life they deserve, but she knows that her husband will never leave his ranch. Moving and majestic, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an unforgettable novel about love and loyalty, homeland and belonging. Above all, it is the story of one woman's courage in the face of the most punishing adversity.

Author Biography

Ann Weisgarber was born and raised in Kettering, Ohio. After graduating from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, she was a social worker in a psychiatric hospital before moving to Houston, Texas, with her husband. She earned a Master of Arts in Sociology at the University of Houston and taught high school and later, sociology at a junior college. She has lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Des Moines, Iowa, but now splits her time between Sugar Land, Texas, and Galveston, Texas.