A Measure of Light: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345808495 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Prose-wise, there isn’t a page in A Measure of Light where something extraordinary doesn’t happen. Like a method actor, Powning has infiltrated Mary’s world so completely that she seems to write from squarely within its wallsPowning’s descriptions are as visceral and intense (“Stars spread in coruscating clouds against the wet-slate blackness”) as they are unexpected (“glimpsed truth like the corner of an envelope slipped beneath a door”).—The Globe and Mail "Powning writes about grief with uncanny precision; she gets all its ambushes and piercing aches exactly right." Lisa Moore, —National Post "Equal parts character study, travelogue and action-adventure tale, The Sea Captain's Wife is a marvellous read." —Edmonton JournalFrom the Hardcover edition.
Mary becomes one of America’s first Quakers. In this exceptional pairing of author and subject, Mary Dyer receives in the hands of Beth Powning— herself a New England–born Quaker—the full-blooded recognition too long denied a woman of her moral stature and significance in shaping American history.From the Hardcover edition.. With Beth Powning’s trademark elegance and insight into the hearts and minds of unforgettable women, A Measure of Light brings to life an extraordinary historical figure. As both outcast and privileged citizen, caught between the callings of faith and the ambitions of her husband, she comes to the realization that she must follow her convictions in order to bring an end to the brutal repression of the Quakers in Massachusetts, for whom death by hanging is the ultimate punishment. Though she is the wife of a successful merchant and mother to their children, she becomes stigmatiz
One Star I could not get past the first chapter. Way too much oppression and severe religious rules.. patricia reis said No Happy Thanksgiving Tale. Powning's writing is superb, the historical realities are shocking and real, the relationships between the women are finely drawn, Mary Dyer's relationship with her husband is tender, subtle, believable, Mary's spiritual search in an era of intense spiritual rigidity and repression is unrelenting. The world of Puritan New England is terrifying and Powning does not spare us. This is not a Happy Thanksgiving tale - rather it is a story of a fierce desire for spiritual freedom.. "Well written. So interesting that the novel was based" according to ilene maund. Well written . So interesting that the novel was based on historical facts. The author really made the hard life the early settlers lived so vivid. Her discriptions of the characters made them come alive.
Shadow Child, shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, is a memoir of coming to terms with the stillbirth of her first son. BETH POWNING's previous books include Seeds of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature, a collection of lyrical prose and photogr