Prairie Son - Couverture souple

Clausen, Dennis M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0922811393 ISBN 13 : 9780922811397

Editeur : Mid List Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Clausen Dennis M

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Prairie Son is the true story of a boy who was adopted out of an orphanage in the early 1920s and raised on a Midwestern farm to be a worker for his adoptive family. Lloyd A. Clausen, the author’s father, survived the Great Depression, drought years, and spirit-crushing poverty. On his adoptive parents’ farm, Lloyd was denied basic dental care, an education, decent clothing except for what he bought with his own trapping money. He was also left at home or on the shore when other fathers took their son’s fishing or to other community outings. Yet, Lloyd survived and eventually located his biological parents through a series of extraordinary coincidences and with the assistance of others who sympathized with his plight and helped him find his ancestral roots. When Prairie Son was first published in 1999, it became somewhat of a national, statewide, and regional publishing sensation. Dave Woods, Past Vice-President of the National Book Critics Circle, wrote that Prairie Son, this year’s winner of the First Series: Creative Nonfiction Award, attracted “all manner of national attention, a consummation devoutly to be wished for by a small publisher.” Prairie Son was also nominated for several national book awards, and the University of Minnesota voted it one of the five most important books published in 1999 by a University of Minnesota alumnus. Reviews of Prairie Son were laudatory. The Pioneer Press review stated, “Have you ever read a book so good you don’t want it to end? Prairie Son will make you feel that way.” Corresponder referred to Prairie Son as “an extraordinary book ... worthy of any and all of his father’s hardest won battles.” Foreword Magazine described the book as “Truly memorable ... The rich descriptive quality makes this text deeply lyrical as well as historical. Outstanding.” Publishers Weekly wrote that Prairie Son was “an archetypal account of Depression-era hardship. A testament to one boy’s heroic struggle to maintain his humanity in the face of overwhelming odds.” Mary Logue, another author, described the book as “a haunting song that will not be forgotten.” Since it was first published in 1999, Prairie Son has become a voice for many other children who were adopted to be workers and later struggled during their adult years with the legacy of those early life experiences. Goodbye to Main Street, a recently published sequel to Prairie Son, continues that quest into the latter decades of the twentieth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mid List Pr
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0922811393
• ISBN 13: 9780922811397
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 243
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible