The Distancers

The Distancers
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780345806772
ISBN-13 : 0345806778
Rating : 4/5 (778 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Distancers by : Lee Sandlin

Download or read book The Distancers written by Lee Sandlin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride--of successes, failures, and above all endurance--leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, the uses of proper manners, , The Distancers is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.


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