| Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History Contributor(s): Brox, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807021075 ISBN-13: 9780807021071 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Wnen her father dies and leaves her to decide the fate of the family farm, Jane Brox wonders how family identity--language, food, a grandfather's wish for "five thousand days like this one"--can endure when so few traces of former lives are left. With a poet's eye and a historian's hunger, she is driven to search out her family's past in the fascinating and quintessentially American history of the Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.45 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Topical - Family |
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| Publisher Description: Amid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed compassion, honesty, and restraint (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. Jane Brox's first book, Here and Nowhere Else, won the 1996 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been represented in Best American Essays. She is a frequent contributor to The Georgia Review. Jane Brox lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. |