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Enemy Women (2002), a historical novel by Paulette Jiles, recounts an aspect of Civil War history that many are unfamiliar with – the damage caused to civilians and civilian property by marauding, unregulated militias on both sides of the conflict. The story is told through the eyes of Adair Colley, a young woman from Missouri whose family ...
Feb 5, 2002 · For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison.
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Feb 20, 2024 · Then look no further than “Enemy Women” by renowned author Paulette Jiles. In this book summary, we will provide a comprehensive overview of this gripping novel, including the plot, characters, themes, and writing style.
Feb 1, 2001 · Missouri native Jiles, a poet and memoirist ( Cousins, 1992), sets her story in the Ozarks and vividly details one of the most brutal if little-known chapters in the Civil War: the destruction of civilian property and the killing of women, children, and elderly men by an unregulated Union militia.
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Enemy Women. Paulette Jiles, 2002. HarperCollins. 336 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061337635. Summary. The Civil War Era was one of the most divisive and heart-rending in our nation's history. For 18-year-old Adair Colley it brought about intense personal change as well.
Any hope of finding a haven is destroyed when one among the walkers falsely accuses Adair of collaborating with the enemy, and she is taken from her terrified sisters to a women's prison in St. Louis. It is there that she meets her Union interrogator, Major William Neumann. They fall in love.
Paulette Jiles has created a compelling heroine in Adair Randolph Colley. She is witty, pragmatic, honest and stubborn. While Jiles’s writing is ripe with imagery, it is also steeped in the vernacular peculiar to the time and place.
