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Ursula, Under: Shannon Ravenel Series by Ingrid Hill (1st Ed., 2005, Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Book Series
- Shannon Ravenel Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Signed By
- No
- ISBN
- 9780143035459
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143035452
ISBN-13
9780143035459
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45014940
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ursula, under
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Asian American
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"[Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them." -- The Washington Post Book World "It's a divine view of a family tree... Ride along to the end of this merry, generous book." -- Time Out New York "Hill's stories lure-the characters are vital, clever, detailed, appealing; I wolfed the book down like a bowl of cookie dough." -- The San Diego Union-Tribune " Ursula, Under never ceases to surprise and compel. What a grand and daring book." -- Brady Udall , author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, [Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them. (The Washington Post Book World) It’s a divine view of a family tree... Ride along to the end of this merry, generous book. (Time Out New York) Hill’s stories lure-the characters are vital, clever, detailed, appealing; I wolfed the book down like a bowl of cookie dough. (The San Diego Union-Tribune) Ursula, Undernever ceases to surprise and compel. What a grand and daring book. (Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint) Extravagant and absorbing ... I didn’t want it to end. (Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife), "[Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them." - The Washington Post Book World "It's a divine view of a family tree... Ride along to the end of this merry, generous book." - Time Out New York "Hill's stories lure-the characters are vital, clever, detailed, appealing; I wolfed the book down like a bowl of cookie dough." - The San Diego Union-Tribune " Ursula, Under never ceases to surprise and compel. What a grand and daring book." - Brady Udall , author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, [Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them. ( The Washington Post Book World ) It’s a divine view of a family tree... Ride along to the end of this merry, generous book. ( Time Out New York ) Hill’s stories lure-the characters are vital, clever, detailed, appealing; I wolfed the book down like a bowl of cookie dough. ( The San Diego Union-Tribune ) Ursula, Under never ceases to surprise and compel. What a grand and daring book. (Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint ) Extravagant and absorbing ... I didn’t want it to end. (Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife )
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
This remarkable debut novel opens with a two-year-old girl trapped in an abandoned mine shaft, then travels back through history to trace the extraordinary lives of her most unusual and surprising ancestors., In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft--"the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she goes down, like a penny into the slot of a bank, disappeared, gone." It is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in the rescue of this little girl, the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. One TV viewer following the action notes that the Wong family lives in a decrepit mobile home and wonders why all this time and money is being "wasted on that half-breed trailer-trash kid." In response, the novel takes a breathtaking leap back in time to visit Ursula's most remarkable ancestors: a third-century-B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned playmate of a seventeenth-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer (on exotic Chinese topics) traveling the Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century; her great-great-grandfather Jake Maki, who died at twenty-nine in a Michigan iron mine cave-in; and others whose richness and history are contained in the induplicable DNA of just one person--little Ursula Wong. Ursula's story echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that her very existence--like ours--comes to seem a miracle. Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining--a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity., Once in a while, a first-time novelist dares to write bravely and big. Ingrid Hill has done just that with her breathtaking first novel. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. When a two-year-old girl falls down a mine shaft it is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in her rescue. Little Ursula Wong is the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. The Wongs live in a decrepit mobile home and their child is designated by one onlooker as "half-breed trailer trash," not worth all the attention and expense. "Oh yeah? responds the story's narrative voice. "Let's just see. And here the novel explodes into a grand saga of culture, history, and heredity. By its end, we've met, among others of Ursula Wong's ancestors, a 2nd-century B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a 16th-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer on exotic Chinese topics traveling the Midwest at the end of the 19th century; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather Jake Maki, a mine worker who died in a cave-in at age twenty-nine. Ursula's ultimate fate echoes that of her ancestors, so many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle. Ambitious and accomplished, "Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining.
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