Flesh and Grass

ISBN: 1451512880

Author: Cone, Libby

Condition: New

Review " Captivating and masterful describe Cone's work, and for those looking for an excellent historical fiction novel about one of the most interesting times in history for North America, I recommend Libby Cone's Flesh and Grass."Jennifer Higgins, Rundpinne"Wow .... just wow. You know that feeling when your partner hands you a gift and it's in a really little package and you know it is going to be an expensive and amazing gift? Well this book is like that. An amazing gift in a small package."Dana Burgess, Let's Book It" Just as in her first novel, War on the Margins, Libby Cone has chosen to write about a small, tightly-knit community that becomes overwhelmed by outside forces and events. Once again, her research is meticulous and the fine detail of everyday life transports the reader to the very heart of that community."Monix, Random Distractions Product Description Seventeenth-century Holland is a major power with a large, wealthy middle class built on spices and slavery. Dutch schemes to colonize the New World attract few interested parties, but Pieter Cornelissoon Boom, an early Mennonite with a dream of communal living, brings a few families to Delaware Bay in 1663. Their "Little Common-wealth" is just getting started when the bloody economic rivalry between Holland and England unleashes violence on the coast of Delaware. The Nieuw Netherland colonies swing between Dutch and English ownership in a series of Anglo-Dutch wars. Cornelis, Boom's blind son, tells the story of the community (based loosely on the ill-fated Delaware settlement of Pieter Plockhoy) in its various forms of existence, relying on his exquisite memory of scent. About the Author Libby Cone is the author of WAR ON THE MARGINS (Duckworth Publishers, 2009), a novel about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands and the subsequent marginalization and persecution of the Islands' Jewish citizens. She continues her fascination with the arbitrary nature of national identity with this story, loosely based on the ill-fated Plockhoy settlement in what is now Lewes, Delaware. Born in Massachusetts, Cone now calls Philadelphia home. A practicing radiologist, she lives there with her husband, many pets, and many books.