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I shall be near to you : a novel

Summary: A tale inspired by true accounts and a real female soldier's letters home follows the extraordinary experiences of a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight next to her husband in the American Civil War, an effort that tests the bonds of their relationship and their respective gender perceptions.

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  • ISBN: 9780804137720 (hardback) :
  • ISBN: 0804137722 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: print
    304 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301).
Subject: Battles -- United States -- History -- Fiction
Farm life -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Fiction
Husband and wife -- Fiction
Male impersonators -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Love stories.
War stories.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library McCa (Text) 33294001871557 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Available -

Summary: A tale inspired by true accounts and a real female soldier's letters home follows the extraordinary experiences of a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight next to her husband in the American Civil War, an effort that tests the bonds of their relationship and their respective gender perceptions.

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