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An echo in the bone : a novel / Diana Gabaldon.

Gabaldon, Diana, (author.).

Summary:

Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say. Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780440245681
  • ISBN: 0440245680
  • ISBN: 9780385342469
  • ISBN: 0385342462
  • ISBN: 9780440245681
  • ISBN: 0440245680
  • Physical Description: xvii, 1155 pages ; 18 cm.
  • Edition: Dell mass market edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Dell, 2011, ©2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Part 1: Troubling Of The Waters: -- Sometimes they're really dead -- Sometimes they aren't -- Life for life -- Not yet awhile -- Morality for time-travelers -- Part 2: Blood, Sweat, And Pickles: -- Long island -- Uncertain future -- Spring thaw -- Knife that knows my hand -- Fireship -- Transverse lie -- Enough -- Unrest -- Delicate matters -- Black chamber -- Unarmed conflict -- Wee Demons -- Pulling teeth -- Ae fond kiss -- Regret -- Minister's cat -- Flutterby -- Part 3: Privateer: -- Correspondence from the front -- Joyeux noel -- Bosom of the deep -- Stag at bay -- Tunnel tigers -- Hilltops -- Conversation with a headmaster -- Ships that pass in the night -- Guided tour through the chambers of the heart -- Part 4: Conjunction: -- Flurry of suspicion -- Plot thickens -- Psalms -- Ticonderoga -- Great dismal -- Purgatory -- Plain speech -- Matter of conscience -- Blessing of bride and of Michael -- Shelter from the storm -- Part 5: To The Precipice: -- Crossroad -- Countdown -- Friends -- Three arrows -- Ley line -- High places -- Henry -- Reservations -- Exodus -- British are coming -- Conflagration -- Mount independence -- Return of the native -- Retreat -- While still alive -- Deserter game -- Independence day -- Battle of Bennington -- Deserter game, round 2 -- No better companion than the rifle -- One just man -- Separated forever from my friends and kin -- Gentleman caller -- Hat trick -- Deathbed -- Greasier than grease -- Despoiler -- Terms of surrender -- Sanctuary -- Part 6: Coming Home: -- State of conflict -- Feast of all saints -- One ewe lamb returns to the fold -- Twenty-twenty -- Sic transit Gloria Mundi -- By the wind grieved -- Memorarae -- Old debts -- Cave -- Oenomancy -- Purgatory 2 -- Dispositions -- Counting sheep -- Right of it -- Part 7: Reap The Whirlwind: -- Son of a witch -- Valley forge -- Severance and reunion -- Rather messy -- Ink-stained wretch -- Armed with diamonds and with steel -- Footsteps -- Independence day 2 -- Series of short, sharp shocks -- Paths of death -- Numbness -- Firefly -- Nexus -- Mischianza -- Butterfly in a butcher's yard -- Lady in waiting -- Redivivus -- Bred in the bone -- Hour of the wolf -- Author's notes.
Subject: American Revolution (1775-1783)
Randall, Claire (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Scottish Americans > Fiction.
Time travel > Fiction.
North Carolina > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Fiction.
Highlands (Scotland) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Time-travel fiction.

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Summary: Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say. Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.

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