Alix Hawley. (2017). All True Not a Lie in It: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Alix Hawley. 2017. All True Not a Lie in It: A Novel. HarperAudio.

Alix Hawley, All True Not a Lie in It: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2017.

Alix Hawley. All True Not a Lie in It: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2017.

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     Alix Hawley studied English literature and creative writing at Oxford University, the University of East Anglia and the University of British Columbia. She published a story collection, The Old Familiar, with Thistledown Press in 2008. She won the 2014 Canada Writes Bloodlines competition, judged by Lawrence Hill, and was runner-up for the CBC Literary Award for short stories in 2012 and 2014. She teaches at Okanagan College in Kelowna, British Columbia, where she lives with her family.

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The story of pioneer Daniel Boone's life, told in his voice—a tall tale like no other, startling, funny, poignant, romantic and brawling—set during the American Revolutionary War

Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him: debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through two stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of a son at the hands of the same Indians and the rescue of a daughter. The prose rivals Hilary Mantel's and Peter Carey's, conveying that sense of being inside the head of a storied historical figure about which much nonsense is spoken while also feeling completely contemporary.

Boone was a fabulous hunter and explorer, and a "white Indian," perhaps happiest when he found a place as the captive, adopted son of a chief who was trying to prevent the white settlement of Kentucky. Hawley takes us intimately into the life-and-death survival of people pushing away from security and into Indian lands, despite sense and treaties, just before and into the War of Independence.

The love story between Boone and his wife, Rebecca, is rich and tangled, but mostly it's Boone who fascinates, pushing into places where he imagines he can create a new "clean" world, only to find death and trouble and complication. He is a fabulous character, unrivaled in North American literature, and a prime candidate for the tall tale. The storytelling is taut and expert, the descriptions rich and powerful, the prose full of feeling, but Boone is what drives this outstanding debut.

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     July 25, 2016
     This historical fiction debut is a quiet, sweeping story about the life of mythic frontiersman Daniel Boone. Told entirely from the perspective of Boone himself, the book meanders through his early childhood, sharing formative moments such as his joy for the first gun he owned and his brother Isaiah teaching him to hunt, and his family's exile from their religious community in Exeter, N.H. From there, the reader follows Boone on his peripatetic adventures as he pushes westward, searching for paradise. Though Boone does marry and start a family, he can't be tied down and has a constant itch to carry on his search for heaven on earth. Adventure is both wondrous and tragic for Boone, who sees his first herd of buffalo and traverses the beautiful, untouched land of Kentucky but also has multiple run-ins with the Shawnee and grieves the deaths of loved ones. The narrative is carried by the strong, poetic voice, which at times is as hard to pin down as the man himself. Boone's ghosts—of both people and places—follow and haunt him despite his attempts to shake them off through almost constant exploration into the unknown. Hawley's marvelous book shines light on a figure that has become more legend than man, sharing an intimate and raw portrayal of Boone that rings true. Agent: Denise Bukowski, Bukowski Agency.

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   • content: Kirby Heyborne is a wonderful narrator who is well suited to this first-person story of pioneer Daniel Boone's life. Brought up as a Quaker, he was twice captured by Indians and then participated in the Revolutionary War. Narrative on Boone's thoughts and actions as well as clever, well-written period dialogue, delivered in Heyborne's assured and gentle voice, provides richly dramatized scenes. Heyborne's portrayals avoid trying to perform characterizations of secondary characters. Nonetheless, his smooth, rich voice and excellent pacing capture the energy of this well-written novel. The engrossing production hooks listeners on Heyborne's performance as well as the story. S.C.A. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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     June 1, 2016
     A thoroughly researched historical novel reimagines the life of 18th-century frontiersman Daniel Boone, transforming him into a brooding observer of the fall of a country he'd like to consider Paradise.The first novel by short story writer Hawley (The Old Familiar, 2008) uses as a framework what is known of Boone's life, beginning with his impoverished childhood in a Quaker community in Pennsylvania and ending, rather abruptly, as the Indians who have either, depending on one's perspective, captured or adopted him prepare to attack the fort Boone and others have built in Kentucky. (A sequel is evidently in the works.) In between, Boone witnesses--and causes--many a death, marries, fathers a bunch of children, moves his family several times, sets off on hunts that last months or years, is captured by Indians, escapes, and is captured again. The close adherence to chronology makes for an episodic novel in which the only consistent character is Boone himself. The frontiersman tells his story, presumably from the point of view of old age but in the present tense. The world he describes, full of squalor and natural beauty and blood, is richly detailed, and the dialogue sharp and well-trimmed. Boone himself, however, often seems more literary device than believable character. Depressive and romantic, he is continually haunted by an increasingly crowded swarm of ghosts, beginning with the brother who died when Boone was an adolescent and the horse he had to kill when it broke its leg. While not much is known of Boone's inner life, since he left few written records, his actions don't necessarily jibe with the introspective, language-besotted dreamer Hawley creates, the one who often feels that he is living in "a long half-dream."The novel sets out to take Daniel Boone from myth to man--but in the process, it transplants him into another sort of literary myth.

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     July 1, 2016
     Daniel Boone is a man haunted. In this gripping debut novel from Hawley, the colonial American frontiersman is portrayed as someone filled with regret for his actions, whether they were lethal or seemingly small lapses in behavior. From his childhood in a Quaker community, Boone is an avid hunter with a sense that he does not fully belong. After his family is cast out by the Friends, he begins to forge his own path, joining the French and Indian War and eventually leading expeditions into the Kentucky territory. He is then captured and adopted into a Shawnee tribe, where he straddles the uneasy boundary between his dual identity as prisoner and son of the chief. Hawley captures the brutality of frontier living with stark, evocative writing. Far from a lone hunter and explorer, this Boone is thoroughly entangled by his relationships, whether to his captivating but tough wife or to a childhood companion who dogs his steps, despite Boone's barely concealed loathing of him. With impressive scope and detail, this novel brings forward the man from the myth.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him: debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through two stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of a son at the hands of the same Indians and the rescue of a daughter. The prose rivals Hilary Mantel's and Peter Carey's, conveying that sense of being inside the head of a storied historical figure about which much nonsense is spoken while also feeling completely contemporary.

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