This Life Is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone - Rilegato

Coleman, Melissa

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ISBN 10: 0061958328 ISBN 13: 9780061958328

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2011

Riassunto

The author describes her upbringing in a totally self-sufficient home built in the middle of the woods in 1970s Maine, a childhood that was marred by the drowning death of her 3-year-old sister, an event that lead to divorce, a mother's breakdown and the entrusting of the author's care to the family's farm apprentices. 40,000 first printing.

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“Intense readability.... haunting power.... as well as lush, vivid atmosphere that is alluring in its own right.... [A] story so nuanced that it would be a disservice to reveal what was in store. If you want to know what happened, read it for yourself.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times)

“A fascinating look at the roots of the organic movement as well as a cautionary tale about the limits of idealism and the importance of forgiveness.” (Washington Post)

“Rendered with sublimity.... [Coleman] fluently describes the power of the natural world, familial love and heartbreak, grace after loss.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Coleman’s moving recounting never loses hope of redemption.” (People, Lead Review "People Pick")

“The Colemans and the Nearings . . . worked hard to create an alternative economy that is still growing in rural America. This memoir is evidence of their great sacrifices. (Los Angeles Times)

“Combine the sincerity of Walden with the poignancy of The Glass Castle, add dashes of the lush prose found in The Botany of Desire, and you get This Life Is in Your Hands.... I was engaged and deeply moved by this evocative tale of Paradise found then lost.” (Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed)

“[This] is a rare breed of book-a memoir that justifies its own existence; that feels like it needs to exist.... Coleman shows that without the essential ingredient of heart, any family-no matter how perfect and revolutionary it seems-is in danger of experiencing real loss.” (NPR.org)

“Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is In Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn’t just tell the story of her family’s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history.” (Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher)

“With beautiful lyrical prose, Coleman shows us what life in a 1970s back-to-nature farm was like, and the dear price her family paid pursuing their dream.” (Ann Hood, author of The Red Thread and The Knitting Circle)

“Her memoir is as wrenching as it is beautifully written.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

L'autore:

As a freelance writer, Melissa Coleman has covered lifestyle, health, and travel.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061958328
• ISBN 13: 9780061958328
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 325