Mary Lee Settle

5 ½ x 8, 260 pages
paper, $19.95t
ISBN 978-1-57003-114-4

ABOUT THE BOOK

Prisons follows the coming-of-age of Johnny Church from English youngster to dashing Oxford adolescent to idealistic Puritan in the service of Cromwell's Parliamentary Army. Throughout his evolution Johnny seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political, and religious prisons, not realizing that with each successive grasp at freedom, he escapes one form of captivity only to be confined by another.

Johnny's journey ends in a prison of stone and mortar where, after questioning Cromwell's restrictions on personal freedoms, he is executed. Based on a true incident of the English Civil War, Prisons captures the promise and tragedy of the conflict that led to the first substantial migration to North America.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. Her novel Blood Tie won the National Book Award and her novel Choices received the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Settle's other works include the novels Charley Bland, Celebration, The Clam Shell, The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kinand a memoir, All the Brave Promises. Settle now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Addie
Charley Bland
O Beulah Land
Know Nothing
The Scapegoat
The Killing Ground
All the Brave Promises
Blood Tie
Celebration
The Clam Shell
The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin