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Sinossi
Nell’anno del Signore 1894 diventai una fuorilegge. Come molte cose, non avvenne tutto in una volta.
Sotto la guida della madre, Ada, diciassette anni, sta imparando a diventare una levatrice. Un lavoro di cui ama ogni aspetto… ma che è un ricordo costante dell’unica ombra della sua vita. Infatti, benché lei e il marito si amino molto, ormai è quasi un anno che sono sposati e non hanno ancora avuto figli. Un peccato mortale in un Paese decimato dalla Grande Influenza e che ha quindi un disperato bisogno di uomini. Un peccato che le donne sterili, considerate per questo streghe, scontano con l’impiccagione. Per salvarsi la vita, Ada deve fuggire e si unisce a una banda di rinnegati, che compiono furti e rapine per il sogno di Kid, il loro capo, che ambisce a creare una società in cui non esistano differenze di genere… Grazie a un’eroina eccezionale, coraggiosa e determinata, Anna North riscrive il mito del West in chiave femminista, creando una saga originalissima e avvincente.
- ISBN: 8833210596
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 272
- Data di uscita: 16-09-2021
Recensioni
This book is like an under seasoned meal: it’s fine, it’s edible, it has all the right ingredients. But it’s just...not good. My issues arose early, particularly with the narrative voice: while it has a few fun moments (“in the year of our lord 1984, I became an outlaw” works perfectly in context), Leggi tutto
Maybe I just don't like Westerns. As it turns out, I don't think I've ever read one of them. And I don't really like historical fiction, because it often means I'm putting myself in the narrative shoes of someone who is unable to take daily showers with hot running water, and that's no type of thing Leggi tutto
3.5 stars rounded up. “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.” That opening line pulled me in and the writing held me there the rest of the way. This is not your typical western, nor is it a factual account of the Hole in the Wall Gang . If you’re looking for truly realistic historical fic Leggi tutto
3.5 stars. I think this is one of those books that suffered somewhat because I had a different vision for it than the author did. And that's okay, but I suspect some other readers will have a similar feeling. It's a Speculative Western, set in an alternate America where a massive flu wiping out much Leggi tutto
DNF’d on page 118 specifically. Until that point, I was willing to overlook a lot. There are a lot of strange gender and gendering decisions, especially when there is a character in the synopsis who is not a man or a woman. A character that I don’t think was handled all that well, as far as I got. I Leggi tutto
It still surprises me that some of my favorite novels are westerns. It no longer surprises me that they’re written by women. The territory once dominated by Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour has long since been opened up by Paulette Jiles, Mary Doria Russell, Molly Gloss and other women who have cut fresh Leggi tutto
The concept of Outlawed is wonderfully creative—a reimagined American West in which women and gender-fluid outcasts band together as law-breaking cowboys. The execution, however, left something to be desired. Falling flat from its initial promise, the novel is predictable and slow. There are too man Leggi tutto
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