Calamity

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Pub Date Apr 01 2019 | Archive Date May 02 2019

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Description

Her name is synonymous with the West. Her celebrity has spread to the East Coast and California, traveling down the new-laid railroads and along the telegraph wire.

But breathless tales of Calamity Jane bear little resemblance to the truth. As she senses death coming closer, the legendary hellcat longs to set the record straight—to reveal her life story at last, unclouded by legend, every sin and failing laid bare. Only then can she hope to rest in peace.

In a Deadwood saloon, she finds a writer willing to hear her out, and recount the truth to a public hungry for more tales of Calamity Jane…

So begins Libbie Hawker’s expansive biographical novel, an intimate portrait of one of the best-known yet least-understood women of the American frontier. The international bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night takes the reader on a heart-rending journey through a landscape lost to time, as seen through the eyes of one outcast woman. Calamity is a haunting meditation on hardship, unrequited love, and the stark, affecting beauty of the American West.

Editorial note: In pursuit of a narrative voice faithful to the central character, this text employs deliberate misuse of grammar and occasional misspellings. These are the author’s intentional stylistic choices and should not be interpreted as a lack of editing. Readers are encouraged to use the “Look Inside” feature before purchasing.

Her name is synonymous with the West. Her celebrity has spread to the East Coast and California, traveling down the new-laid railroads and along the telegraph wire.

But breathless tales of Calamity...


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Featured Reviews

If you love history of the wild west and of course of the one and only Calamity Jane. Libbie Hawkers is a wonderful author as finds Calamity Jane's voice who doesn't sugar coat her flaws, her disappointments in life but for the first time Calamity Jane is real and a person who lived her life in the days of the wild west.
The author will have readers eating out of the palm of her hand with her writing style, research, passion on who Calamity Jane was.

Thank You to Netgalley and publisher Running Rabbit Press for the copy of Libbie Hawkers Calamity

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