A Breath of Snow and Ashes (novel)
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes (novel)
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name = A Breath of Snow and Ashes
title_orig =
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author = Diana Gabaldon
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country = United States
language = English
series = "Outlander" series (book 6)
genre = Historical novel
publisher = Delacorte Press
release_date = 27 September, 2005
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 992 pp (mass market paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-385-32416-2
preceded_by = The Fiery Cross
followed_by =
"A Breath of Snow and Ashes" is the sixth volume of the best-selling Outlander series, written by Diana Gabaldon.
Plot summary
Claire is the wife of "Jamie Fraser", her 18th century husband, and facing the politics and turmoil of the forthcoming American Revolution. The preceding novel, "The Fiery Cross", concluded with political unrest in the colonies beginning to boil over and the Frasers trying to peacefully live on their isolated homestead. Jamie is suddenly faced with walking between the fires of loyalty to the oath he swore to the British crown and following his hope for freedom in the new world. Though Jamie and Claire face skirmishes and divided loyalties from friends and neighbors, Gabaldon manages to leave her audience on the edge of their seats right through the last page.
As the sixth in what is now a six-book series (according to the author there will be a Book 7-"An Echo in the Bone", possibly a Book 8) of Claire Randall Fraser and her Highlander husband Jamie, the story is an integral step in a bestselling and surprisingly rich tale spanning the time from the Scottish Rising of 1745, to the American Revolution.
Characters
Jamie Fraser
Claire Fraser
Brianna Randall Fraser MacKenzie
Roger Mackenzie
Jeremiah MacKenzie
Fergus Fraser
Marsali Fraser
Germain Fraser
Ian Murray
Malva Christie
Tom Christie
Lord John Grey
Jocasta Cameron
Duncan Innes
External links
* [http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770427993&view=excerpt Excerpt from A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
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