- Hardcover: 143 pages
- Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang (1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1556704607
- ISBN-13: 978-1556704604
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #340,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Powning combines an extraordinary understanding and sense of place with an affinity for the world of nature. She and her husband, Peter, left their native Connecticut 25 years ago for a farm near the Bay of Fundy, in New Brunswick, Canada. She celebrates their life there in 70 color photos and lyrical prose, chronicling the seasons, marveling at the ephemeral beauty of spring wildflowers and noting the simple pleasures of observation. In winter, Powning longs for a blizzard; without storms, winter creeps by dully. She writes about fields and forests, vegetable gardens and wild fruits, and finds that her life and where she lives are inextricably entwined. This book imparts a feeling of serenity; Annie Dillard fans will enjoy it.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
In a poetic memoir, Powning looks back over the past 20 years at the impulses and desires behind a dream she and her husband shared when they moved to a farm in New Brunswick. Embracing the idea of returning to a rural atmosphere, Powning recounts a vibrant life filled with the awesome recognition of their secluded Canadian environment's raw beauty and uncharted forests. Describing the untamed surroundings, Powning's compelling prose melds with her lyrical color photographs to evoke a vivid sense of place. Tracing the geometry of plowed fields, witnessing emerging wildflowers, and reveling in winter's deafening blizzards, Powning forms a seamless testament to a fragile yet wondrous wilderness. Alice Joyce
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Photographs that make you breathe deep, and prose to match, Nov 21 1997
By Linda Rhodes (brogan0644@aol.com) - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Home: Chronicle of a north country life (Hardcover)
Not precisely a story, or an essay, this book is a life caught in pages and images. The photographs are like thoughts, simple and multi-layered at the same time, full of details of color and texture; palpable. We long for honesty from our friends and neighbors - this is it. Each word is thoughtful, but not studied. She lets you in, to the center of a life. If you love the physical-ness of books, smooth pages, the smell, a nice compact size, print, lovely little flourishes at the end of chapters, you will hold this book often. Don't mistake me, it is not cloying, just satisfying. After all this, what is the book about? One woman's journey to Canada in the late 1960's to buy an old farm, and somehow fit into the local community and make a home and a life. That's it, but it's enough.
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