The River Wife by Jonis Agee is a novel that spans plus years and details the lives of the women in the life of Jacques Ducharme, from his first wife, to his mistress, to his daughters, and the bride of his grandson. The tale is told from the perspective of Hedie Ducharme, the bride of /5. Rescued by French fur trapper Jacques Ducharme, Annie learns to love the strong, brooding man and resolves to live out her days as his "River Wife". More than a century later, in , Hedie Rails comes to Jacques' Landing to marry Clement Ducharme, a direct descendant of the fur trapper and river pirate, and the young couple begin their life together in the very house Jacques built for Annie so long ago. The River Wife: A Novel audiobook written by Jonis Agee. Narrated by Cassandra Campbell. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today!
"The River Wife" by Jonis Agee is a multigenerational, epic novel covering the lives of five women related either by marriage, partnership, or birth to the 19th-century French fur-trapper and river pirate, Jacques Ducharme. These are the stories of Ducharme women--Annie Lark, Laura, Omah, Maddie, and Heide. Agee's novel is an edgy tale of survival along the banks of the Mississippi River in nineteenth-century Missouri. While Cassandra Campbell's sweet and THE RIVER WIFE by Jonis Agee Read by Cassandra Campbell | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine. The River Wife by Joni Agee. The River Wife is a panoramic story--from the New Madrid quake to the s. Central to the story is the enigmatic, Jacques DuCharme, a one-armed river pirate whose wealth and wild ways become legendary.
The past continually haunts the present in Jonis Agee's historical novel THE RIVER WIFE, the story of four generations of women whose lives are intertwined with charismatic, larger-than-life Jacques Ducharme. The first woman to be introduced (but last chronologically) is Hedie Ducharme, a teenaged, pregnant bride who, in , comes with her new husband Clement to live at his family's house in Missouri's far southeastern bootheel region. From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, whom The New York Times Book Review called “a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape,” The River Wife is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the s. The River Wife richly evokes the nineteenth-century South at a time when lives changed with the turn of a card or the flash of a knife. Jonis Agee vividly portrays a lineage of love and heartbreak, passion and deceit, as each river wife comes to discover that blind devotion cannot keep the truth at bay, nor the past from haunting the present.
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