Once again, though, Anderson's detailed story creates a cinematic sense of history while raising crucial questions about racism, the ethics of war, and the hypocrisies that underlie our country's founding definitions of freedom. Curzon isn't as fully realized here as Isabel was in Chains, resulting in a less-cohesive and -compelling whole. He finds necessary food and shelter as a private with the Continental army, and through Curzon's eyes, Anderson re-creates pivotal historical scenes, including the desperate conditions at Valley Forge. After a narrowly successful escape from Manhattan, former slaves Isabel and Curzon separate, and Curzon is once again on the run. This time, though, her central character is male, and the heartbreaking drama shifts from Chains' domestic town houses to graphically described bloody battlefields. Anderson follows her searing, multi-award-winning novel Chains (2008) with this well-researched sequel, also set during the Revolutionary War and narrated by a young African American. Anderson, Laurie Halse (Author) Oct 2010.
She and Curzon have to sort out the tangled threads of their friendship while figuring out what stands between the two of them and true freedom.įorge.
And then there is Isabel, who is also at Valley Forge-against her will. In addition to the hardships of soldiering, he lives with the fear of discovery, for he is an escaped slave passing for free. This is where Curzon the boy becomes Curzon the young man. The Patriot Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter. In this compelling sequel to Chains, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson shifts perspective from Isabel to Curzon and brings to the page the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles-and in the midst of the American Revolution. For many readers, Forge "will be one of the best novels they have ever read" (starred review from Kirkus Reviews ) Blistering winds.
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