On All Sides Nowhere: Building a Life in Rural IdahoHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 15 авг. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 147 In the 1970s, a young man, eager to experience life like Thoreau and Walden, takes his wife and moves to a rural Idaho log cabin in this memoir. When Bill Gruber left Philadelphia for graduate school in Idaho, he and his wife decided to experience true rural living. His longing for the solitude and natural beauty that Thoreau found on Walden Pond led him to buy an abandoned log cabin and its surrounding forty acres in Alder Creek, a town considered small even by Idaho standards. But farm living was far from the bucolic wonderland he expected: he now had to rise with the sun to finish strenuous chores, cope with the lack of modern conveniences, and shed his urban pretensions to become a real local. Despite the initial hardships, he came to realize that reality was far better than his wistful fantasies. Instead of solitude, he found a warm, welcoming community; instead of rural stolidity, he found intelligence and wisdom; instead of relaxation, he found satisfaction in working the land. What began as a two-year experiment became a seven-year love affair with a town he'll always consider home. Winner of the Bakeless Prize, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Praise for On All Sides Nowhere “While Gruber’s writing is a gift, even better are the simple but profound truths he shares: “We sometimes forget that the most important thing we can do with our lives is to make them models for somebody else to follow.” Gruber’s Idaho is like the Troy first and famously uncovered by 19th-century German archeologist Schliemann: in actuality, there isn’t a whole lot there, but the author makes it seem full and magical, all the same.” —Publishers Weekly “What was intended to be a deep immersion in study for graduate school—in the silence and solitude of a northern Idaho backwoods cabin—becomes a deep immersion instead in a place and its people, sharply etched . . . . Engaging particulars of an essential life, pared to the core.” —Kirkus Reviews |
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... American writers is typified by Julia Alvarez's recollection of her first conference: "I went to Bread Loaf for the first time in 1969 and fell in love with the community of writers... All these people talking about nothing but writing ...
... American writers is typified by Julia Alvarez's recollection of her first conference: "I went to Bread Loaf for the first time in 1969 and fell in love with the community of writers... All these people talking about nothing but writing ...
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... America's oldest and most distinguished literary presses with an equally distinguished writers' conference. The ... American writing. MICHAEL COLLIER Director, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference FOREWORD THERE HAS always been a lot of ...
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... American rural life. Piety, kitsch, self-importance, sentimentalism— these deadly literary sins seem to thrive on good clean country air. Even Thoreau, flinty contrarian and poet laureate of bucolic solitude, packed a full load of ...
... American rural life. Piety, kitsch, self-importance, sentimentalism— these deadly literary sins seem to thrive on good clean country air. Even Thoreau, flinty contrarian and poet laureate of bucolic solitude, packed a full load of ...
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... American status ladder, as that structure is usually understood. But Gruber's understanding is not usual. He offers no statistics on poverty, education, income, or unwed motherhood for his "underprivileged" community. Rather, he takes ...
... American status ladder, as that structure is usually understood. But Gruber's understanding is not usual. He offers no statistics on poverty, education, income, or unwed motherhood for his "underprivileged" community. Rather, he takes ...
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1 On All Sides Nowhere | |
2 Things That Came with the Place
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3 Locals
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4 The White Fir
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5 Immigrants and Emigrants
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6 Falling Trees
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7 Hay for the Horses
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8 Builders Buildings and BuildOns
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9 Scrounging
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10 Backwoods Mechanics
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11 Why They Shoot Bears in Alder Creek
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12 At the Bend in the River Where the Cottonwoods Grow
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Back Cover | |
Spine | |
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