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The Purchase

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Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction

Pennsylvania, 1798. Daniel Dickinson, a devout Quaker, has just lost his wife. When he marries a fifteen-year-old Methodist orphan to help with his five small children, his fellow Quakers disown him for his impropriety. Forced out of the only community he's ever known, Daniel moves his family to the Virginia frontier. He has in hand a few land warrants, with which he plans to establish his new homestead.
Although determined to hold to his Quaker belief in abolitionism, Daniel is now in a slave state, and he soon finds himself the owner of a young boy named Onesimus. This fatal purchase sets in motion a twisted chain of events that will forever change his children's lives--and his own. An unforgettable story of sacrifice and redemption, The Purchase powerfully explores questions of fate, faith, loyalty, and conscience.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780804173261
  • ISBN-10: 0804173265
  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: September 2014
  • Dimensions: 8.42 x 4.73 x 0.74 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
  • Page Count: 320

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