Vacationland Contributor(s): Stonich, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816687668 ISBN-13: 9780816687664 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2012048343 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
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Publisher Description:
Those whose paths have crossed at Naledi inhabit Vacationland: a man from nearby Hatchet Inlet who knew Meg back when, a Sarajevo refugee sponsored by two parishes who can't afford "their own refugee," aged sisters traveling to fulfill a fateful pact once made at the resort, a philandering ad man, a lonely Ojibwe stonemason, and a haiku-spouting girl rescued from a bog. Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as "unexpected and moving" by the Chicago Tribune and "a well-paced feast" by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place--at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience--and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice. |