Dancing at the Odinochka

by Kirkpatrick Hill

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

YR Hill

Collection

Publication

Margaret K. McElderry (2005), Edition: 1, 272 pages

Description

In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Author's note identifies the historical basis for the story.

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LibraryThing member jennybeast
An interesting counterpoint to both westward expansion children's lit (Wilder et al.) and miner stories from the Yukon. More of a nonfiction account than most of Hill's other work, in that it is a narrative with a real historical personage as the subject. Parts are harsh, parts are beautiful, but
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the central themes of familial love and changing times remain strong and bittersweet.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

272 p.; 5.75 inches

ISBN

0689873883 / 9780689873881
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