Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memorydi Rick Skwiot
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Beautifully descriptive prose brings on the nostalgia. Set in the mid-1900's this is the story of a little boy's last Christmas living in the countryside. His father has just lost his blue-collar job and the family's future becomes an unknown. Though living on the edge of poverty, the author remembers his childhood as being in a kind of Eden of running free and playing hard. Meanderings of life in simpler times, may bring up memories you never had. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimenti
After learning that his father's layoff at a steel mill threatens their country home on a fateful Christmas Eve in 1953, a six-year-old boy works frantically to save it in this poignant memoir that depicts a simpler, more innocent, and, in some ways, more free America. Part true novel, part social history, this book is a paean to a lost world, depicting with detail a shy yet curious child's world of freedom and discovery. A rich, sensory, and aesthetic journey through frozen lakes, frosted fields, squawking jays, and the muted palette of gray Illinois winter afternoons, the tale takes readers back to an era of coal stoves, hand pumps, and fragrant markets. Chronicling the family's loss of their bucolic paradise, this work foreshadows a nation's loss of innocence and serves as a microcosm of America's postwar migration from rural life to urban homesteads. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999VotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |