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From Our House: A Memoir
Lee Martin
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Description for From Our House: A Memoir
Paperback. Learning to live by the seasons and to fall asleep to the rumble of his father's tractor, braving snowstorms to sell hogs or to visit an ailing grandmother, playing basketball, listening to baseball games, and stealing records, the author endures the anger and shame that haunt his family. This memoir tells his tale. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227. 8vo.Good copy
From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee's father, once known for doing a good turn for his neighbors, changed that afternoon in the cornfields, becoming an embittered, hardened man. All our lives have private truths, Martin writes, and the truth about my father was that after his accident he brought a deep and abiding rage into our home. I knew his hooks as intimately as I ever knew anything about my father. ... Read more
From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee's father, once known for doing a good turn for his neighbors, changed that afternoon in the cornfields, becoming an embittered, hardened man. All our lives have private truths, Martin writes, and the truth about my father was that after his accident he brought a deep and abiding rage into our home. I knew his hooks as intimately as I ever knew anything about my father. ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803222908
SKU
KEX0297953
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lee Martin
Lee Martin is a professor of English and director of creative writing at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including Turning Bones (Nebraska 2003), River of Heaven, and The Bright Forever, finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Reviews for From Our House: A Memoir
Martin's memoir evokes the secrecy of family violence and the isolation of growing up in a rural community. . . . This is a touching and honest portrayal of family life, violence, disappointment, and coming of age. -Booklist
Booklist
A lyrical, finely wrought memoir of grief, pain, and joy. -Chicago Tribune
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Booklist
A lyrical, finely wrought memoir of grief, pain, and joy. -Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Martin ... Read more