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Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion | Jessamyn West
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A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes with candor, sometimes with violence-and tests the strength of their beliefs. Whether it's a gift parcel arriving on their doorstep or Confederate soldiers approaching their land, the Birdwells embrace life with emotion, conviction, and a love for one another that seems to conquer all. The Friendly Persuasion has charmed generations of readers as one of our classic tales of the American Midwest.
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Butterfinger
Butterfinger
Friendly Persuasion | Jessamyn West
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The 1956 movie has always been one of my favorites. (Even though Jimmy Stewart didn't play in it) I enjoyed the book just as much. A Quaker family in Indiana during the Civil War loved, sang, and laughed. It is just a feel good book. USStates 34/50 #WinterGames2020 #ReadNosedReindeer @StayCurious 26 points ##DashingDecember @andrew65 #CrushtheRush @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick #WinterSolsticeReadathon @Bookgoil #ReadYourWay @TheSpineView

Bookgoil Looks great! ❤️ 4y
Andrew65 Sounds good 👏👏👏 4y
mom2bugnbee Oh, my word. My dad has talked about this movie my entire life (I'm 48), & I've never met anyone else who knows of this movie. Gary Cooper, yes? 4y
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Butterfinger @mom2bugnbee yes. I'm 45 and I love old movies. The blurb on the back really aggravated me because it said Cary Grant. I think I may email the publisher. 4y
mom2bugnbee Wow! That's quite a mistake! Yikes. 4y
CarolynM @mom2bugnbee The movie was on TV in Australia more than once in the 1970's. I remember it fondly. (edited) 4y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Sounds like a good one! 4y
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Butterfinger
Butterfinger
Friendly Persuasion | Jessamyn West
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Who do I contact to correct inaccurate information? It was Gary Cooper who played in the film adaptation not Cary Grant. 🤦🤷

TrishB Is it on a kindle? There is a report error button on mine. 4y
Butterfinger @TrishB no it is a large print published in 07. 4y
TrishB 👍🏻 I have been known to email publishers! 4y
Texreader Wow!! What a crying shame. 4y
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Indydancingbookworm
Indydancingbookworm
Friendly Persuasion (Harvest/HBJ) | Jessamyn West
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It's a collection of short stories, compiled from short stories first published in magazines, that covers forty or so years of a Hoosier Quaker family in the late 1800s. The vignette format made it an easy read, but I found myself constantly trying to fill gaps in the storyline as I moved from one chapter to the next. That doesn't mean I enjoyed it any less--I just wish there had been a few more chapters to pull it all together.

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