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Grand Ambition

Grand Ambition

by Lisa Michaels (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

    $6.38
Synopsis

In November 1928, one year after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, a pair of young newlyweds set out to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon in a homemade boat. Swept up by America's obsession with feats of daring, Glen and Bessie Hyde hoped to set a record - she would be the first woman to run that treacherous stretch of the Colorado River. A month later they vanished without a trace. Based on the few known facts of Bessie and Glen Hyde's story and braiding the account of the young lovers' journey with Glen's father's desperate efforts to find them, Lisa Michaels creates a tale of suspense: a meditation on the line between risk and recklessness, and the passions that drive us to them.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: First ediiton
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 18 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0340819219
ISBN 13: 9780340819210

Media Reviews
A grand sweep of a book, combining both derring-do plot with tingly love story ... the perfect read for armchair adventurers everywhere. - Elle

Michaels is an adept storyteller, with a poet's eye for evocative detail ... her account has a powerful immediacy. [She] achieves that most difficult feat of depicting historical events as real and engaging, and does so with a spare eloquence that makes this book linger in the mind. - The Times

Impressive far more than mere historical reconstruction, it is quite a feat of storytelling. . . Compelling few first novels could draw a reader to it as effectively as Grand Ambition. . . .An exciting, almost cautionary, well-told tale about a dangerous hunger for escape and self fulfilment. - Irish Times

Lisa Michael's exhilarating 'Grand Ambition' is based on a true story ... made believable by Michaels's considerable poetic and descriptive flair ... a tragic and haunting love story - Guardian

A compulsive and haunting read - New Woman

Taut, tough and beautifully written - Eve

A novel about love, life and loss that succeeds on every level - Financial Times

Michaels s grandest achievement ... is her depiction of the young couple - of how they move from first meeting to passionate love, from their hasty marriage to their dangerous honeymoon. She treats these two lovers delicately and tenderly, without resorting to gauz
Author Bio
Lisa Michaels is an award-winning poet and contributing editor at The Threepenny Review. Her critically acclaimed memoir Split: A Counterculture Childhood was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in northern California.