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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Features
- Signed
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780814332337
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Publication Name
- Pulling Down the Barn : Memories of a Rural Childhood
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Agriculture / General, Life Stages / School Age, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Series
- Great Lakes Books Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 138 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814332331
ISBN-13
9780814332337
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30528871
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
138 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Pulling Down the Barn : Memories of a Rural Childhood
Subject
Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Agriculture / General, Life Stages / School Age, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Series
Great Lakes Books Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2004-006440
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
The wind sings through the pages of this wonderful memoir of coming of age on an American farm. You can hear the waves on Lake Michigan, feel snowflakes on your face, watch dust motes spiraling in the hay loft. This is a book about courage and endurance and the grace to be found in simple moments. Anne-Marie Oomen is a writer of extraordinary sensitivity and a master of the literature of engagement.", Pulling Down the Barn is a wonderfully lyrical and evocative memoir. In this honest and powerful coming-of-age family story, Anne-Marie Ooomen utilizes a poet's eye to lovingly depict the beauty of the northern Michigan landscape, while at the same time finding a kind of dark splendor in its sometimes harsh and raw climate. A must-read for those who love memoirs about settling and place., Anne-Marie Oomen has written a perfect gem of a book: deceptively quiet, delicately structured, but with the enduring force, strength, and brilliance of a diamond.", You can't take the farm out of the girl' is a statement that Anne-Marie Oomen would not only accede to, but has found ways to celebrate in this well-written memoir. She, the writer, has gone beyond her rural roots, but here she pays her loving debts to the people and the natural world that so inform her attractive sensibility.", Anne-Marie Oomen has left the Oceana County farm where she grew up, but the farm is never very far from her heart. Oomen puts that heart onto the pages in this series of essays that bring to life the details of farm life. Each essay is deep with her remembering, her vision, her sense of place, her love for family, her heart., Pulling Down the Barn is a vivid and magical work. Oomen's richly evocative prose makes palpable not just a sensual childhood on a Michigan farm-the smell of hay, the sounds of honeybees-but also the landscape of a young girl's imagination. Here where the fields reign as indifferent gods and family can be both blessing and burden, a young girl learns to negotiate between camaraderie and loneliness."
Dewey Decimal
977.4/5943/092 B
Synopsis
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., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
F572.O3O58 2004
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