Cross Creek - Brossura

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0684818795 ISBN 13: 9780684818795

Casa editrice: Scribner, 1996

Riassunto

Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling—in the Florida backcountry.

Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings describes her life at the Creek with humor and spirit. Her tireless determination to overcome the challenges of her adopted home in the Florida backcountry, her deep-rooted love of the earth, and her genius for character and description result in a most delightful and heartwarming memoir.

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Recensione:

The Atlantic Monthly It is hard to see how anyone can read Cross Creek without pleasure amounting to glee.

L'autore:

Acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize -- winning novel The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1918. She was born in Washington, D.C., and moved to Cross Creek, Florida, at the age of thirty-two. Some of her other books include South Moon Under, Golden Apples, When the Whippoorwill, and Cross Creek Cookery. Rawlings published fiction until her death in 1953.

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684818795
• ISBN 13: 9780684818795
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 380