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Guardian (2002)

by Joe Haldeman

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This is a shelf of books that, counter to most popular fiction, offer nonviolent solutions to their plots.

Joe Haldeman has often dealt with issues of war and peace--perhaps he is best known for his novel "[b:The Forever War|21611|The Forever War|Joe Haldeman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167322714s/21611.jpg|423]". In "Guardian" he tells the story of a woman who is treated brutally, makes a long and remarkable journey, and becomes instrumental in preventing nuclear war. ( )
  nmele | Apr 6, 2013 |
Another good Haldeman book. I have yet to read one of his books that I haven't liked. ( )
  mjparme | Jul 6, 2010 |
The Guardian is a very interesting and unusual book by Haldeman. It covers the life of a women and her son as recorded in her journal. Therefore, Haldeman uses a first-person viewpoint from the woman, and at least in my opinion he does a very good job. It is an unusual story that begins when her abusive husband sexually abuses her son and she takes him from Philadelphia in 1899 and begins a flight the leads her across the country and eventually into the gold fields of Alaska. Along the way she is helped by a crow that actually speaks to her and saves her by giving her advice. Her journey reveals much about the society in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It provides accurate details about traveling by rail, steam ship, and riverboat and much about the harsh realities of life in the still untamed west and especially in the gold rush areas of the Yukon. The story turns even stranger when she is helped by a being with supernatural powers and knowledge. I enjoyed this book and was surprised that I was never bored during the read. ( )
  clark.hallman | Mar 19, 2008 |
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I have started to write this down many times in the past twenty years-ever since I turned seventy, and felt that every day of life was a special gift.
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In the late nineteenth century, a seemingly ordinary woman embarks on an extraordinary adventure in the Alaskan gold fields--after her destiny is revealed to her by something not of this world.

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"Rosa Coleman has not had an easy life. Uprooted from her Southern home during the Civil War, she settled in Philadelphia; eventually she married a man of leisure, whose compassion quickly turned to cruelty. But once that cruelty was inflicted upon their only son Daniel, she picked up and fled with the boy across the uncivilized Western frontier - and into Alaska to start anew among the region's gold fields." "But even the harsh journey across America has not prepared Rosa for the infinite possibilities that await her. Something not of this world has approached her. It has revealed the universe's secrets to her. And it will take her on an extraordinary odyssey as she discovers that she, Rosa Coleman, has a role to play in bringing peace to Earth..."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)

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