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Feb 28, 2023 · And in Jenny, Sayles has created a spiky, self-possessed hero, a character of memorable life and wit. “Jamie MacGillivray” is Sayles’s sixth novel — his first was published in 1975 — and ...
Feb 28, 2023 · JAMIE MacGILLIVRAY is Dickensian in scope and a masterpiece that only the indomitable John Sayles could have produced." Jamie’s travels are paralleled by those of Jenny Ferguson, a poor village girl. In fact, their narratives will rival each other in such a way that it almost seems to be predestined.
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Feb 28, 2023 · Cinema’s loss has been literature’s gain over the past decade as Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles ( Matewan, Lone Star etc) has increasingly devoted himself to novel writing. Jamie MacGillivray is the epic flowering of an unmade screenplay that was originally intended to go into production in 2003 starring Robert Carlyle.
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About Jamie MacGillivray. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice ‘It gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the confusion of warfare and deals equally well with the horrors of the plantations…This is a first-rate historical novel told with wit, verve and a subtle understanding of the mechanics of the genre.’
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Feb 28, 2023 · Cinema’s loss has been literature’s gain over the past decade as Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles ( Matewan, Lone Star etc) has increasingly devoted himself to novel writing. Jamie MacGillivray is the epic flowering of an unmade screenplay that was originally intended to go into production in 2003 starring Robert Carlyle.
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The author opens with the 1745 Battle of Culloden. On one side, there’s “pretender” Bonnie Prince Charlie and his motley army of Highlanders, Irish, Scots, and English deserters. They face off with the infamous Duke of Cumberland and his government forces. Jamie MacGillivray of Dunmaglas—rebel to the core—is captured by the redcoats ...
Cinema’s loss has been literature’s gain over the past decade as Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Sayles ( Matewan, Lone Star etc) has increasingly devoted himself to novel writing. Jamie MacGillivray is the epic flowering of an unmade screenplay that was originally intended to go into production in 2003 starring Robert Carlyle.
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