The eulogist : a novel

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Label

The eulogist : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Terry Gamble

Creator

• Gamble, Terry

Author

• Gamble, Terry

Subject

• Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
• FICTION -- Cultural Heritage
• FICTION -- Historical
• FICTION -- Literary
• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• History
• Immigrants
• Immigrants -- Fiction
• Immigrants -- Fiction
• 1800-1899
• Irish Americans -- Fiction
• Ohio
• Ohio -- History -- 19th Century -- Fiction
• Ohio -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Siblings -- Fiction
• Slavery
• Slavery -- Fiction
• Slavery -- Fiction
• Irish Americans
• Brothers and sisters

Genre

• History
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "From the author of The Water Dancers and Good Family comes the story of an Irish family that emigrates to America in 1819 and settles in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they will confront the horrible reality of slavery on the opposite bank of the Ohio River"--
• 1819. Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after the Napoleonic Wars, the Givens family settle in Cincinnati. After losing their mother in childbirth and their father to a riverboat headed for New Orleans, James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves. Ambitious James eventually marries into a prosperous family, builds a successful business, and rises in Cincinnati society. Taken by the spirit and wanderlust, Erasmus becomes an itinerant preacher, finding passion and heartbreak as he seeks God. Independent-minded Olivia, seemingly destined for spinsterhood, enters into a surprising partnership and marriage with Silas Orpheus, a local doctor who spurns social mores. When her husband suddenly dies from an infection, Olivia travels to his family home in Kentucky, where she meets his estranged brother and encounters the horrors of slavery firsthand. After abetting the escape of one slave, Olivia is forced to confront the status of a young woman named Tilly, another slave owned by Olivia's brother-in-law. When her attempt to help Tilly ends in disaster, Olivia tracks down Erasmus, who has begun smuggling runaways across the river--the borderline between freedom and slavery. As the years pass, this family of immigrants initially indifferent to slavery will actively work for its end--performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come. -- adapted from jacket

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

PUL

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3607.A434

LC item number

E85 2019

Literary form

fiction