The Living (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Doak
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Farms, farmers, or farming, Accidents, Death or dying, Revenge, Small-town life, Pacific Northwest, Westerns, Life and death, Outlaws, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: Bellingham, WA, Whatcom, WA
In The Living—a book that took her three years to research and write—Dillard creates a tapestry of the American Frontier but set in an area not generally portrayed in novels: the Pacific Northwest. In her only novel to date, Dillard chronicles the lives of the people who settled at Whatcom on Bellingham Bay and built the town of Bellingham in what would later become the state of Washington. The book's setting is one with which Dillard became personally acquainted while artist-in-residence at Western Washington State University in Bellingham.
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