The Purchase Paperback by Linda Spalding

Product Details

• Publisher: Emblem Editions (2017-08-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780735253261
• Item Weight: 371.95 grams
• Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.17 x 1.02 cm

With a fresh new package, Linda Spalding's award-winning national bestseller, The Purchase, will be launched in time for her much anticipated new novel coming out this fall.


     In 1798, a young Quaker father and widower is forced to leave his home in Pennsylvania with his fifteen-year-old new wife and his five children to establish a life elsewhere. When he soon finds himself the owner of a young slave boy, a chain of events is set in motion that will lead to two murders and the family's strange relationship with a runaway slave named Bett. 

     Lyrical yet as hard-edged as the realities of pioneer life, Spalding's writing is nothing short of stunning, her characters and their stories unforgettable. Atmospheric and gripping, powerful and morally complex, this spellbinding, cinematic novel of a family's hardships as they establish themselves in slave-ridden Virginia before the Civil War brings to mind Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone, and the work of Cormac McCarthy.

About the Author

Born and raised in Kansas, LINDA SPALDING immigrated to Canada in 1982 from Hawaii. She is the author of three much earlier novels and two acclaimed works of non-fiction--The Follow which was shortlisted for The Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize; and, most recently, Who Named the Knife. She received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community. She lives in Toronto, where she is the editor of Brick magazine.