
On Homesickness
A Plea
Jesse Donaldson(Author)
West Virginia University Press
Published on 30. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-946684-00-4 (ISBN)
Description
One day, Jesse Donaldson wakes up in Portland, Oregon, and asks his wife to uproot their life together and move to his native Kentucky. As he searches for the reason behind this sudden urge, Donaldson examines both the place where he was born and the life he's building.
The result is a hybrid-part memoir, part meditation on nostalgia, part catalogue of Kentucky history and myth. Organised according to Kentucky geography, with one passage for each of the commonwealth's 120 counties, On Homesickness examines whether we can ever return to the places we've called home.
The result is a hybrid-part memoir, part meditation on nostalgia, part catalogue of Kentucky history and myth. Organised according to Kentucky geography, with one passage for each of the commonwealth's 120 counties, On Homesickness examines whether we can ever return to the places we've called home.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Morganstown
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
120 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946684-00-4 (9781946684004)
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Person
Jesse Donaldson was born in Kentucky, educated in Texas, and now lives in Oregon. He is the author of the novel The More They Disappear.