The Place Where I Come From A Story Cycle |
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Author:
| Dawson, Laura J. N. |
ISBN: | 978-0-9894977-1-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Yellow House Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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"We drove through New Jersey, through Philadelphia and Wilmington. The land got flatter and flatter, more and more sandy. As we headed south on Route 13, the houses and shopping malls gave way to fields of soybeans and corn. We were almost out of Delaware when the fan belt broke."
Milton, Delaware - a town at the Southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula - is very flat, very sandy, and very small. "The Place Where I Come From" portrays the lives of small-town inhabitants just before the...
More Description"We drove through New Jersey, through Philadelphia and Wilmington. The land got flatter and flatter, more and more sandy. As we headed south on Route 13, the houses and shopping malls gave way to fields of soybeans and corn. We were almost out of Delaware when the fan belt broke."
Milton, Delaware - a town at the Southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula - is very flat, very sandy, and very small. "The Place Where I Come From" portrays the lives of small-town inhabitants just before the Internet became prevalent, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Influenced by Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg Ohio", "The Place Where I Come From" is a precise depiction of a particular place in a particular time - when isolation and stillness haunted the lives of a small, rural town.