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Novelist Jane Smiley’s “LIDIE. The Further Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton”
Host Diana Korte speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley, author of 34 books. Her newest title, “LIDIE. The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton,” follows two young women fleeing a divided America in 1857. When Lidie’s niece Annie becomes an actress at the local theater in Quincy IL, and is offered an opportunity to perform in England, she decides to run away. But travel is dangerous for a young, unmarried woman, so Lidie, armed with her pistol and her wit, goes with her.
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