In the Merrimack Valley

A Farm Trilogy

von Jane Brox

Taschenbuch

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"Of soil and soul...Ms. Brox has restored a lost world."--Wall Street Journal

A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age.

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In the Merrimack Valley brings together for the first time in one volume Brox's timeless trilogy: Here and Nowhere Else (winner of the L.L. Winship/PEN/New England Award); Five Thousand Days Like This One (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Clearing Land (named a Best Book of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

In considering the place of the family farm today, Brox traces the transformation of the idea of wilderness--and its intricate connection to cultivation--which changed as our ties to the land loosened. Exploring these strands, Brox arrives at something beyond a biography of a farm: a vivid depiction of the half-life it carries in our collective imagination.

This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by Suzanne Berne, and new afterword by the author.

• ISBN: 9781567928181
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2024
• Größe: 188 x 134 mm
• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher