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Saratoga Season 2008: Novels with Regional Settings |
Novels with Regional Settings
Mary Ellen Mengucci
An eclectic—though by no means comprehensive—list of novels with real settings in the corridor between Glens Falls and the greater Saratoga region. Some contain mere passing references to the region while others include long and detailed descriptive passages of area sites:
Saratoga Trunk by Edna Ferber
Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbr and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley
Saratoga: A Novel of the American Revolution by David Garland
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by Robert Sobel
Mohawk by Richard Russo
Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Bella's Saratoga Summer (children's book) by Jennifer Gorden Sattler
Rabble in Arms by Kenneth Roberts
The Runaway Racehorse (children's book) by Ron Roy
Ulysses S. Grant: A Novel by Robert Skimin
The Charlie Bradshaw Mysteries by Stephen Dobyns
That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of Ulysses S. Grant by Richard Parry
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