LEADER 01558pam 2200181 a 4500
001 892778
005 20181210092822.0
008 181226s2018 nyu g 000 0 eng
010 $a 2018288708
020 $a9781501179341 (hbk.) :$cNT$770
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
082 04$a823.92$222
097 00$aPR6104.A855$bW47 2018
100 1 $aDavies, Carys,$eauthor.
245 10$aWest :$ba novel /$cCarys Davies.
250 $aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,$c2018.
300 $a149 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $aWhen widower John Cyrus Bellman learns of colossal animal bones found in Kentucky, he leaves his daughter on their Pennsylvania farm and heads west in search of the unknown animals.
520 $a"When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and headswest. With only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mother's gold ring to call her own, Bess, unprotected and approaching womanhood, fills lonely days tracing her father's route on maps at the subscription library and waitingfor his letters to arrive. Bellman, meanwhile, wanders farther and farther from home, across harsh and alien landscapes, in reckless pursuit of the unknown" --$cprovided by publisher.
650 0$aFamilies$vFiction.
650 0$aFrontier and pioneer life$vFiction.
650 1$aFamily life$vFiction.
651 0$aKentucky$y19th century$vFiction.
651 4$aKentucky$xHistory$y19th century$vFiction.