The distancers
Subtitle: an American memoir
By: Lee Sandlin
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780345806765
Subjects: Social life and customs; German Americans; Family; Biography
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Just shy of the Mississippi; title: Bosh's only idea; title: The last of the Old Country; title: The champion distancer; title: We can't take care of our own; title: The world doesn't owe you a living; title: War fever; title: Nobody would ever guess; title: One last parade; title: Things they never told; title: This is all I know; title: Heilongjiang.