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Lädt ... In Extremis and Other Alaskan Storiesvon Jean Anderson
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Alaska, with its midnight sun, seemingly endless winter and vast stretches of isolated land, is a main character here, playing subtle but key roles in each story of this superior first collection. In PARTING OUT, a professor's middle-aged wife sits at her breakfast table, her thoughts jumping from the facts of her marriage to fantasies of her husband's unfaithfulness. But even with her disturbing inner visions, it is the winter scene outside the window that transfixes her. In VREELUND, a transplanted Alaskan attends a memorial service for a friend, a mountain climber. The mother of toddler twins in DISTANCE discovers that the climate is not her harshest foe, when tragedy compels her to recall the bravery she and her husband had needed to travel so far together, into this land whose very extremity was the thing she loved and wanted. A pioneer charting frontier, Anderson surveys both the exotic terrain and the readily recognisable natives. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: Keine Bewertungen.Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |