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Title: All True Not a Lie in It

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Alix Hawley

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Harper Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The story of pioneer Daniel Boone's life, told in his voice - a tall tale like no other, startling, funny, poignant, romantic, and brawling - set during the American Revolutionary War

Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him: Debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony through two stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of a son at the hands of the same Indians, and the rescue of a daughter. The prose rivals Hilary Mantel's and Peter Carey's, conveying that sense of being inside the head of a storied historical figure about which much nonsense is spoken while also feeling completely contemporary.

Boone was a fabulous hunter and explorer and a "white Indian", perhaps happiest when he found a place as the captive adopted son of a chief who was trying to prevent the white settlement of Kentucky. Hawley takes us intimately into the life-and-death survival of people pushing away from security and into Indian lands, despite sense and treaties, just before and into the War of Independence.

The love story between Boone and his wife, Rebecca, is rich and tangled, but mostly it's Boone who fascinates, pushing into places where he imagines he can create a new "clean" world, only to find death and trouble and complication. He is a fabulous character, unrivaled in North American literature, and a prime candidate for the tall tale. The storytelling is taut and expert, the descriptions rich and powerful, the prose full of feeling, but Boone is what drives this outstanding debut.

Members Reviews:

Clever dialogue!

This is clever book with sharp and clever dialogue. For a first book, it is unique. I do hope the author gets deeper into the historical facts in her next book. I would like to know more of the land and the tracking, etc. This is a quick read and runs quickly in Boone's life. Daniel isn't a very deep thinker in the novel. There is a lot of reflection on people gone from his life. The book left me with a lot of questions. I definitely look forward to the author's next book and expect more growth and deeper development of the characters. The book deserves an A+

Lossful life

This is a compelling story that had me wondering what really happened to Daniel Boone. Even after reading more about him outside the story, I am still faced with this story of a man who endured loss of those he loved, who remade his life over and over in the image of the open land and its peoples, who wants to be with those he lost. It is about the inner life of such a restless man.

A little upset at this book

I have waited for some time before writing a review of this book. First of all, I admire anyone who can take words out of thin air and his or her own creativity to write and publish a book, but I was very troubled by this book. Not a lie in it? Perhaps more fabrication and imagination. I got out all of my bios and other books about Boone just to try to verify some of the flights of fancy in it. Morgan Bryan was my 4th Great Grandfather, and the story about him taking his family back into NC due to Indian troubles was one that I had never run across before. He was in his 90âs and I doubt that he was in any shape to take that perilous trek back to NC at that time. Once was enough. He died in 1763 at 92, long before Boone had been to Kentucky or captured.