Pulling Down the Barn - Memories of a Rural Childhood

Informationen zum Autor Anne-Marie Oomen is author of Love, Sex, and 4-H, House of Fields, Pulling Down the Barn, and Uncoded Woman, among others. She teaches at Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College, Interlochen's College of Creative Arts, and at conferences throughout the country. Klappentext Pulling Down the Barn eloquently recalls author Anne-Marie Oomen's personal journey as she discovers herself an outsider on her family farm located in western Michigan's Oceana County, in the township of Elbridge-a couple hundred acres in the middle of rural America. Written as a series of heartfelt interlocking narratives, this collection of essays portrays the realities of farm life: haying, picking asparagus and cherries, the machinery of tractors and pickers; but each chapter also touches upon the more ethereal and rarely articulated: the stoic love that permeates a family, the farmer's struggle with identity, and the way land can shape a childhood. With its rich language and style, Pulling Down the Barn engrosses the reader in Oomen's memories-setting beauty and wonder against work and loss-and paints a poignant portrait of growing up in rural Michigan. Zusammenfassung Recalls author Anne-Marie Oomen's personal journey as she discovers herself an outsider on her family farm located in western Michigan's Oceana County! in the township of Elbridge - a couple hundred acres in the middle of rural America.

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Marie Oomen
• Publisher: WAYNE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9780814332337
• ISBN: 978-0-8143-3233-7
• No. of pages: 138
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Great Lakes Books; Great Lake Books Series; Great Lakes Books (Paperback); Great Lakes Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries