Dot Jackson (1932–2016)
Auteur van Refuge
Over de Auteur
Dot Jackson is co-founder and on-site manager of the Birchwood Center for Arts and Folklife in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina.
Werken van Dot Jackson
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Dorothea Mauldin Jackson
- Geboortedatum
- 1932-08-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-12-11
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Miami
- Beroepen
- Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, former reporter and columnist
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Novello Prize, by the Novello Festival Press of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library
- Korte biografie
- Dot Jackson began her writing career as a journalist, working for numerous newspapers across the South, and spending years as a reporter, columnist, and editor for the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. A child of Appalachian parents, Jackson was fascinated by the lifestyle and culture in that part of the country. When she began writing a novel, she drew on that part of her background.
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Besprekingen
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 1
- Leden
- 70
- Populariteit
- #248,179
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 8
Mary Seneca has never experienced the type of support network she finds in this small mountain region. She develops an immediate rapport with her extended family. She strives to find her place in the world and struggles to live off the land. She watches her children adapt to a new life. The people in the area help them learn the necessary skills. It portrays an authentic sense of community.
The characters are vivid. I especially enjoyed Aunt Panama (also called Panammer or Nam), a woman in her eighties with a feisty, no-nonsense, take-charge personality. The dialect is not too severe, but enough to provide a flavor for the language of the area. The beginning, middle, and climax of the novel are extremely well-crafted. The ending chapters are not quite as strong, trailing off through the end of Mary Seneca’s life. It is too bad this work is not more widely known. It is wonderful piece of writing.
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