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Bezig met laden... Above the Fall Line: The Trail from White Pine Cabindoor Amy Blackmarr
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Amy Blackmarr has written about life in South Georgia and in Kansas. In this book, Amy writes again what she writes best--essays about nature, her surroundings and her personal struggles and triumphs. This time Amy is writing from her Uncle Johnny's cabin in the North Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains. Amy's books are good read alone, reflecting by a cozy fire. Her words wrap a comforting ancestral quilt around one's shoulders. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Amy Blackmarr returns to her native Georgia as a "refugee," fleeing a bleak Kansas winter, the trauma of graduate school, and a "loss of identity, confidence, boyfriend and best dog and pride." Now White Pine Cabin, a hut barely big enough to turn around in, becomes the setting for Blackmarr's searing self-examination as she tells the stories that have led her so far inward and works out a trail back toward a happier connection with herself, the land, her God, and the people in her world. With an irony that keeps her prose from sinking into sentiment, Blackmarr writes of her dishonesty in a lost relationship, flunking her graduate exams, the inborn racism she was surprised to discover, and the loss of her beloved god Max. But her enduring love for the land brings needed beauty and balance, and her sense of humor won't let us get away without hearing about the ghost by the creek, the beat that comes for her pork roast, the mice that eat a rat snake, and the landfill that swallows her car. Finally, when Blackmarr allows herself to move outside her solitude she always discovers the world's unexpected generosity, and it is this gift that helps heal her and make her aware of the art we create in the interwoven kindnesses we pay each other. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)975.8273History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. Georgia Atlanta/North-Central GeorgiaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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