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      Prairie Fever

      by Michael Parker
      Published
      May 2019
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      336
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      About This Book

      "Michael Parker has captured a time, place, and sisterhood so perfectly it hurts to turn the last page. A riveting, atmospheric dream of a novel." --Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos 

      Winner of the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize
      Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

      The Stewart sisters, pragmatic Lorena and chimerical Elise, are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie of early 1900s Oklahoma, but also by their deep emotional reliance on each other. They're all they've got . . . until Gus McQueen arrives in Lone Wolf.

      An inexperienced first-time teacher, Gus is challenged by the sisters' wit and ingenuity. Then one impulsive decision and a cataclysmic blizzard trap Elise and her horse on the prairie—and the balance of everything is forever changed.

      With honesty, poetic intensity, and the deadpan humor of Paulette Jiles and Charles Portis, this novel tells the story of characters tested as much by life on the prairie as they are by their own churning hearts.

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      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

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      Jun 2020 Algonquin ISBN13 9781643750453 ISBN10 1643750453
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      First Edition May 2019 Algonquin ISBN13 9781616208530 ISBN10 1616208538
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      May 2019 Algonquin ISBN13 9781616209452 ISBN10 1616209453
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      May 2019 Algonquin Books ISBN10 B07GNWH3HF
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      May 2019 Highbridge Audio ISBN13 9781684570188 ISBN10 1684570182
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      May 2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books ISBN10 B07RV1C7PT
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      Sep 2019 Thorndike Pr ISBN13 9781432869236 ISBN10 143286923X
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