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Gone the Hard Road
A Memoir|
18,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 04.05.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253053893 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 176 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>"Count your blessings," his mother told him, "Think of everything good in your life."</p>
<p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin has done it again. Building from his acclaimed first memoir, <i>From Our House</i>, which recounts the farming accident that cost his father both his hands, <i>Gone the Hard Road </i>is the story of Beulah Martin's endurance and sacrifice as a mother, and the gift of imagination she offered her son. Martin unfolds the world she created for him within their unsettled family life, from the first time she read to him in a doctor's office waiting room, to enrolling him in a children's book club, to the books she bought him in high school. <i>Gone the Hard Road </i>portrays Beulah's selflessness as the family moved around the Midwest, sometimes in the face of her husband's opposition, to show her son a different way of being. Rather than concentrate on the life his father threatened to destroy, as Martin's previous memoirs do, <i>Gone the Hard Road</i> offers the counternarrative of a loving mother and the creative life she made possible, in spite of the eventual cost to herself. </p>
<p>A poignant, honest, and moving read, <i>Gone the Hard Road</i> will stay with anyone who has ever struggled to find their place in the world.</p>
<p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin has done it again. Building from his acclaimed first memoir, <i>From Our House</i>, which recounts the farming accident that cost his father both his hands, <i>Gone the Hard Road </i>is the story of Beulah Martin's endurance and sacrifice as a mother, and the gift of imagination she offered her son. Martin unfolds the world she created for him within their unsettled family life, from the first time she read to him in a doctor's office waiting room, to enrolling him in a children's book club, to the books she bought him in high school. <i>Gone the Hard Road </i>portrays Beulah's selflessness as the family moved around the Midwest, sometimes in the face of her husband's opposition, to show her son a different way of being. Rather than concentrate on the life his father threatened to destroy, as Martin's previous memoirs do, <i>Gone the Hard Road</i> offers the counternarrative of a loving mother and the creative life she made possible, in spite of the eventual cost to herself. </p>
<p>A poignant, honest, and moving read, <i>Gone the Hard Road</i> will stay with anyone who has ever struggled to find their place in the world.</p>
<p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin grew up in Illinois and now teaches in the MFA program at the Ohio State University. Like many recent titles that IUP has put out successfully, this has a strong Midwest connection and a terrific writing style.</p>
<p>The Hard Road<br>If "If's" and "But's" Were Candies and Nuts<br>The Healing Line<br>Bachelors<br>Gone the Hard Road<br>Spook<br>Noble<br>A Month of Sundays<br>Imposters<br>Bastards<br>Once upon a Time<br>My Lost Year<br>Mischief Afoot<br>Go</p>
<p>Lee Martin is the author of many novels, including <i>The Bright Forever</i>, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He is also author of <i>Yours, Jean</i>;<i> The Mutual UFO Network</i>; and <i>Late One Night</i>, among others. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as <i>Harper's</i>, <i>Creative Nonfiction</i>, and <i>The Best American Essays</i>. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, Martin teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLLxL84JLA">Chapters interview with Carter Taylor Seaton.</a></p>
<p>A haunting and hypnotic memoir by one of our finest storytellers. What I find remarkable is how these essays proceed both sequentially and recursively as they circle and recircle a boyhood shaped by cycles of anger and affection, isolation and intimacy. The emotional intensity can be overpowering.</p>
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