Synopses & Reviews
Heartbroken but determined, Evangeline-along with illegal trapper Bernard Arseneau and priest Felician Abadie-sets out on a ten-year journey to the French-Spanish colony of Louisiana to seek her long-lost love. Evangeline's epic quest to find Gabriel brings her and her companions across North America's colonial wilderness, through the French and Indian War, and into New Orleans' rebellion against Spanish rule. The influence of Evangeline can still be found at every stop of her epic journey.
Review
Praise for Evangeline: "Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers wont soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting." --Keith Donohue, The New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child
"Majestic and stately as Conrad Richters Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind." -Katharine Weber, author of True Confections and Triangle
"Farmer delivers an evocative impression of American colonial and frontier life; his descriptions of everything from the Maryland frontier to a Louisiana swamp settlement give a real sense of the New Worlds newness. A meticulously-rendered setting . . a passion-driven plot." --Publishers Weekly
"A historical romance written in unadorned prose, Farmers Evangeline will satisfy readers who allow themselves to swoon, who enjoy sentimentality . . . a kind of fiction thats underrepresented in U.S. bookstores." --ForeWord magazine
"Farmer has reinvested this classic adventure tale with plenty of historical detail and character traits that will surely bring it alive for many new readers." --Bookreporter.com
"The thing that sets Farmers book apart is that it is pretty close to the original story as told in Longfellows poem...acurate and interesting." -- Baton Rouge Advocate
"Farmer does a yeomans job in setting the poem in prose...Its a grand tale told by a wonderful storyteller." -- Owen Sound Sun Times
Synopsis
As the British drove the French out of mid-eighteenth century Acadia (present day Nova Scotia), the beautiful seventeen-year-old Evangeline Bellefontaine is torn by British soldiers from her fiancé, Gabriel Lajeunesse, on the eve of their wedding.