A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans - Hardcover

Lamb, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812921593 ISBN 13: 9780812921595

Publisher: Crown, 1993

Synopsis

Provides a close-up look at rural America through the eyes of farmers, ranchers, cowboys, hobos, and other colorful characters who speak candidly about their threatened way of life

About this title

From Library Journal:

Many authors claim to write about the "real" (i.e., nonurban) America, but few have done so as perceptively as Los Angeles Times correspondent Lamb ( The Africans , LJ 3/1/83; The Arabs, LJ 3/15/87; Stolen Season , LJ 2/15/91) in his latest work. Written over the last 20 years, the pieces collected here profile Americans living in places we often do not hear about, like Montana, Maine, Alaska, and West Virginia. Without sentimentalizing his subjects, Lamb effectively conveys their pride, self-sufficiency, and reverence for personal freedom as passed down since pioneer days. These are everyday values, lived out on small farms and big ranches, in a factory town in Maine as well as in Britt, Iowa, the hobo capital of the world. For all popular collections.
- Pamela R. Daubenspeck, Warren-Trumbell Cty. P.L., Warren, Ohio
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0812921593
• ISBN 13: 9780812921595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290