by Jane Smiley · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483101445
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«Las fabulosas aventuras de Lidie Newton» is the historical novel by Jane Smiley, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Midwest of the nineteenth century, the novel follows Lydia Harkness, a young woman from Illinois who prefers riding horses and the frontier to domestic chores. Her marriage to Thomas Newton, an abolitionist heading to Kansas, confronts her with the violence of slaveholders and horse thieves and the paradoxes of human relationships.
Published in September 2000, it is part of the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores, number 416.
For those who enjoy literary fiction and stories of the American Western frontier, with humour close to Mark Twain.
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
