Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner
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- Synopsis
- IN A MOVING AND BITTERSWEET STORY, M. J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family regularly parks by the tracks to watch the train pass through. Yet small-town life and, especially, the prairie prove to be fertile ground for Andersen's imagination. Exploring subjects as seemingly unrelated as Roy Rogers and Tolstoy's beloved Anna Karenina, she repeatedly locates a transcendent connection with South Dakota's broad horizon. Andersen introduces us to her hardworking newspaper family, who produce one of Plainville's two competing weeklies; to Job's Daughters, a Christian association intended to prepare young women for adversity (Plainville's chapter assumes the added responsibility of throwing the town's best teen dances); and even to a local variety of hardy alfalfa, to which her best friend has a surprising kinship.
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 243 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312326890
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 08/03/08
- Copyrighted By:
- M. J. Anderson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Kari G
- Proofread By:
- Chanter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.