5/8/2023 0 Comments The last runaway bookThis article appears in the January 2013 issue of The Washingtonian. Gazing up at the Pole Star one night, Honor is amazed “that in a sky full of movement, there could be one fixed point.” When our world is in flux, The Last Runaway reminds us, it’s our principles that guide us home. 2013 by Tracy Chevalier (Author) 6,858 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £17.23 Other new, used and collectible from £1.14 Mass Market Paperback £8.27 Other new and used from £1. ISBN-13: 9780525952992 Summary In New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier’s newest historical saga, she introduces Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in 1850, only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. The Last Runaway Mass Market Paperback 29 Aug. “She did not think she could face eating any of it. The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier, 2013 Penguin Group USA 320 pp. “Honor gazed at the greasy ham, the eggs flecked with fat, the stodgy corn bread she’d had at every meal in America,” Chevalier writes. A quilter by trade, Honor is constantly working with cloth “made in Massachusetts with cotton from a southern plantation.” Should she stop because the material is a product of slave labor?Ĭhevalier, best known for Girl With a Pearl Earring, grew up in Washington, graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and Oberlin College, and now lives in London-experience that allows her to draw amusing contrasts between English and American landscapes, culture, and food. For instance, deception is essential to the Railroad’s success, yet as a Quaker, Honor can’t lie. The Last Runaway’s greatest strength is how it subtly poses ethical conundrums.
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