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Bezig met laden... Feels Like Far: A Rancher's Life on the Great Plainsdoor Linda M. Hasselstrom
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Award-winning author Linda Hasselstrom paints an intimate portrait of family, love, work, nature, and survival against the backdrop of the far-flung South Dakota prairie. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I liked the parts in which she talked more about her personal life - her childhood and her two marriages. She had no children, only stepchildren, which may possibly be why she continues to obsess over her difficult relationship with her parents, even as she nears fifty. What she does write about her parents' failing health, both physical and mental, is easy to relate to and quite affecting. But it gets quite literally done to death here, and I began to wish she'd just get over it. Her descriptions of the nighthawks flights and near mystical encounters with buffalo and elk are excellent, as are her memories of her close friend, Margaret, who becomes an early AIDS victim after receiving tainted blood transfusions following a horrific auto accident.
I liked this book and I didn't, depending on which part I was reading. It seemed uneven in that respect, flashes of brilliantly beautiful writing, followed by long stretches of near poetic musing which became tiresome. Maybe this is more a book for women. I didn't feel that way about Blew's ALL BUT THE WALTZ and BALSAMROOT or Smith's HOMESTEAD, which had steady narratives that carried you effortlessly forward. This one simply didn't work as well for me. In the end I was just glad to finish it. ( )