Title:
The distancers : an American memoir / Lee Sandlin.
ISBN:
9780345806765
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2013.
Physical Description:
xix, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents:
Just shy of the Mississippi -- Bosh's only idea -- The last of the Old Country -- The champion distancer -- We can't take care of our own -- The world doesn't owe you a living -- War fever -- Nobody would ever guess -- One last parade -- Things they never told -- This is all I know -- Heilongjiang.
Summary:
In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride--of successes, failures, and above all endurance--leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, the uses of proper manners, , The Distancers is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.
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OCLC Number:
ocn840934548
Availability:
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