The Wilder life
Subtitle: my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
By: Wendy McClure
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781594487804
Subjects: Appreciation; Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Description: In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Our past life; title: Whose woods these are; title: Going to town; title: Good girls and golden curls; title: There is a happy land far, far away; title: The way home; title: There won't be horses; title: Fragments of a dream; title: Anywhere East or South; title: The road back; title: Be it enacted; title: Unremembered.