Heart Earth/a Memoir - Couverture rigide

Daig, Ivan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0689121377 ISBN 13 : 9780689121371

Editeur : Prentice Hall & IBD, 1993

Synopsis

Acclaim for Ivan Doig's work begun with his 1978 memoir, This House of Sky. With powerful echoes of a family and its fate, this terrifically appealing companion builds with the drama and characters that only real life can hold.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.

Extrait

Heart Earth
Dear Wally—

. . . I shouldn’t even be writing you my troubles but I have to spill over to someone. I’d just like to have you around so I could put my head on your shoulder and cry.

. . . It is going on one and we haven’t had dinner yet. Charlie is resting and I thought the rest would do him more good than eating. Ivan is out in the backyard building roads. He had a foxhole dug you could bury a cow in.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0689121377
• ISBN 13: 9780689121371
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible