The Long Fields
Essays
Will be published approx. on 19. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-1-960329-99-8 (ISBN)
Description
FINALIST, Autobiography & Memoir, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year (2023)
Anne-Marie Oomen's sixth essay collection, The Long Fields, celebrates rural life as she experienced it growing up on a farm and then into an adulthood marked by both wandering and homing. The three parts cover three phases of the author's life: moments of early farm life in "Childhood's Lamplight," building her own home (complete with Estwing hammer) in "The Heart of Place," and finally "Kuieren" (Dutch for "amble"), which delves into the wide swath of daily life. These three parts build a world that offers the vitality of living country. At its heart, The Long Fields voices the best of Midwestern rural living: a relationship to land, stewarding a place, and honoring the sacred quotidian.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-960329-99-8 (9781960329998)
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Anne-Marie Oomen is the author of As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book, which won AWP's Sue William Silverman Nonfiction Award and a Michigan Notable Book Award. Her other titles include The Lake Michigan Mermaid; Love, Sex and 4-H; Pulling Down the Barn; and House of Fields (all Michigan Notable Books).