Effigy Alissa York

Effigy Alissa York Author. Effigy is a wonderful patchwork-quilt of a novel.

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Effigy is a wonderful patchwork-quilt of a novel.

Effigy alissa york. Vintage Canada April 15 2008. Grimness delivered with grace. Dutch Italian French Qubecois and US editions are now available.

Effigy by Alissa York ISBN 13. While cruising the stacks at the local library I ran across Effigy by Alissa York. Dorrie a pale girl with a mass of black hair cannot recall anything of her life before she.

The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah in 1857 in which a group of Mormons and Pauites massacred a party of more than 100 exhausted men women and children en route to California. 12112007 Alissa Yorks Effigy is a historical fiction almost frighteningly real. Grimness delivered with grace.

Effigy is a wonderful patchwork-quilt of a novel. Effigy is inspired in part by a terrible footnote in the history of the West. Her creation of Erastus Hammers four wives and complex household in frontier Utah is so precise and convincing and allows the reader so entirely and readily inside that the only uncertainty is how to get back to the present again.

Based around the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 Alissa York tells the story of a polygamous family headed by Erastus Hammer living in Utah territory. ---National Post CanadaSet on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah and inspired by the real events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 Alissa Yorks Effigy is a haunting story of a polygamous family united by faith but separated by secrets. And polygamy - very interesting subject.

York has lived all over Canada and now makes her home in Toronto with her husband. Grimness delivered with grace. Her latest novel Fauna is now available in Canada and France.

Through letters flashbacks dreams insights into the hypocrisy of religious devotion gone awry and ever-eloquent narration Alissa York has provided me with one of my favorite reads of 2008. Is a very compelling read. Rich and strange and deeply satisfying.

Exhilarating and genuinely fresh. Alissa Yorks novel Effigy was first published by Random House Canada in 2007 and was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardSubsequent editions have appeared in France The Netherlands Italy and the US. Its the middle of the 19th century and at 14 Dorrie is the newest and youngest wife of successful Mormon horse rancher Erastus Hammer.

The characters are so intensely drawn I could visualize them all so clearly as the story unfolds. Effigy is a novel that was first published by Random House Canada in April 2007. 12112007 The beauty of Effigy involves the intricacy of the threadwork.

Dorrie a pale girl with a mass of black hair cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an. Set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah and inspired by the real events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 Alissa Yorks Effigy is a haunting story of a polygamous family. This is Alissa Yorks official website.

Effigy first published in 2007 is available in Canada the Netherlands Italy France Qubec and the USThanks for visiting. Through letters flashbacks dreams insights into the hypocrisy of religious devotion gone awry and ever-eloquent narration Alissa York has provided me with one of my favorite reads of 2008. The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously.

Reviewed by Cherie Thiessen. Whether shes adopting the voice of a homeless teen a yuppy vet or a famished coyote York writes with a. Published by Random House.

The beauty of Effigy involves the intricacy of the threadwork. Alissa York Random House 432 pages Books in Canada October 2007. More By and About This Author.

MartinsDunne 2595 342p ISBN 978-0-312-38672-6. Buy it online. 9162008 A small masterpiece.

Martins Publishing Group Thomas Dunne Books. Throw in a little weirdness with the fourth wife who spends. Alissa Yorks highly acclaimed first novel Mercy was published in 2003.

1172009 The beauty of Effigy involves the intricacy of the threadwork. At the heart of the novel is Dorrie the fourth. I was immediately drawn to the cover and pleased to see it was a Giller Prize finalist.

Her short stories have won several awards including the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award and Effigy was short-listed for the 2007 Giller Prize Canadas largest annual prize for fiction. Historical fiction - inspired by the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Through letters flashbacks dreams insights into the hypocrisy of religious devotion gone awry and ever-eloquent narration Alissa York has provided me with one of my favorite reads of 2008.

By Christine Fischer Guy. In some accounts of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 there remains one loose thread one child of the seventeen who were allowed to live who was not returned to her home in Arkansas but remained in Utah unaccounted foruntil Alissa Yorks brilliant second novel. And Alissa York is a daring and original talent Jim Lynch author of Border Songs Layered with astonishing detail with every location vividly evoked and every action a visceral experience --The Globe and Mail About Effigy Yorks writing is graphic and.

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