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By Michael Pritchett
Whereas writing a biography of his well-known namesake, invoice Lewis, a high-school background instructor, approximately loses himself in his makes an attempt to appreciate one of many nice untold tales in American history—the adventures and next suicide of Meriwether Lewis. while he struggles to light up that unusual and exuberant time and and falls lower than the spell of the elusively seductive character of Capt. Lewis, invoice reveals himself combating his personal own predicament, as a result of a medical melancholy that threatens not just his booklet, yet his task, his kinfolk, his 13-year marriage, and his personal survival earlier the age of 40.
In this wealthy, convinced debut novel, Michael Pritchett not just authentically recreates the realm by which Lewis and Clark compelled their means, but additionally reveals notable parallels among Capt. Lewis’s doubt approximately appear future and the modern uncertainty of the introspective glossy male at a time whilst all our values are in query.
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