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The
2003 Award
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Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Sceptre ISBN 0340819219 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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October 1928 one year after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, a pair of young
newlyweds set out to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon in a home-made boat.
Swept up by America's obsession with feats of daring, Glen and Bessie Hyde
hoped to set a record - she would be the first woman to run that treacherous
stretch of the Colorado River. A month later, they failed to emerge from
the canyon as expected. Taking the known facts of Bessie and Glen Hyde's story, and deftly braiding an account of their journey with Glen's father's desperate efforts to find them, Grand Ambition, is a meditation on the line between risk and recklessness, and a portrait of the passions of a young marriage. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Lisa Michaels is an award-winning poet and contributing editor at The Threepenny Review. Her memoir Split: A Counterculture Childhood was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in northern California. Grand Ambition is her first novel. |
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