Thousand Pieces of Gold

Name: Thousand Pieces of Gold
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ISBN: 9780807083819

ISBN-10: 080708381X

ISBN-13: 9780807083819

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ruthanne Lum McCunn

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A reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies Lalu Nathoys father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. She is sold first to a brothel, then to a slave merchant bound for America. In a new country, she is given the name Polly and eventually auctioned to a saloonkeeper. When admirer Charlie Bemis wins her in a poker game, he frees her from her enslavement and eventually proposes marriage. The two live out their days on a bountiful farm, a homestead called Pollys Place in Salmon Canyon, Idaho. This masterfully told biographical novel is…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 8/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.40" wide x 7.96" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English