
Dancing the Cows Home
Wisconsin Girlhood
Sara De Luca(Author)
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
Published on 15. June 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-87351-325-8 (ISBN)
Description
In 1955, inspired by a televised automobile advertisement, twelve-year-old Sara Hellerud and her twin sister Susie took up dancing. Like the pair of huckstering ballerinas who sailed over the Buick, they vaulted over milk cans and barbed wire. The TV dancers had provided an irresistible contrast to the workaday world of their family's dairy farm in Polk County, Wisconsin. This and other fantasies shared by the twins enabled them to dance through a tense childhood and adolescence. From the vantage of middle-age, Sara recalls her early years with pride and humor. She also explores the process through which the twins unraveled their symbiotic, almost merged, identity to become independent young women eager to investigate the wider world.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
St Paul
United States
Illustrations
b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87351-325-8 (9780873513258)
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Person
Sara De Luca