The Distancers
Erschienen am 13. August 2013
224 Seiten
978-0-345-80677-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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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08/2013
Vintage Books
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Lee Sandlin is the author of Wicked River, Storm Kings, and The Distancers. He was also an award-winning journalist, essayist, and book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal. Born in Wildwood, Illinois, he grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He died in 2014.
Inhalt
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1: Just Shy of the Mississippi
- 2: Bosh's Only Idea
- 3: The Last of the Old Country
- 4: The Champion Distancer
- 5: We Can't Take Care of Our Own
- Photo Insert
- 6: The World Doesn't Owe You a Living
- 7: War Fever
- 8: Nobody Would Ever Guess
- 9: One Last Parade
- 10: Things They Never Told
- 11: This Is All I Know
- Afterword: Heilongjiang
- Acknowledgments and Thanks
