The New World,
by Ralph Mendelson
In 1763, sixteen year old Jonathan Hardy
flees England for the new world. Escaping unrelenting
poverty and a possible future that led inexorably to the
gallows, Jonathan arrives in pre-revolutionary Savannah,
Georgia. Taking work on the large plantation owned by
Owen and Sylvia Hart, Jonathan steps into a world of beauty
and brutality, where he makes an enemy of the colony's
most powerful man, Mr. Jarvis Best and is forced to flee
for his life.
A sweeping story of love and revenge,
friendship and betrayal. Mendelson sets The New World
at the eve of the American Revolution when like Jonathan
himself, the Colonies are fleeing English rules for a
new world.
569 pages, 6 x 9 inches,
paper, $19.95
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