The Resource The distance home, Paula Saunders
The distance home, Paula Saunders
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The item The distance home, Paula Saunders represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions--the ruggedness and the promise--of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where, for most, there are limited options. Reneþ shares a home, a family, and a passion for dance with her older brother, Leon. Yet for all they have in common, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to Reneþ, a born spitfire, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile, Reneþ excels at everything she touches, basking in the delighted gaze of their father, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. As the years pass, Reneþ and Leon's parents fight with increasing frequency--and ferocity. Their father--a cattle broker--spends more time on the road, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as Reneþ and Leon grow up, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat--a word of praise, a grandmother's outstretched hand, the seductive attention of a stranger--as Reneþ works to save herself, crossing the border into a larger, more hopeful world, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. Tender, searing, and unforgettable, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades--a tale of haves and have-nots, of how our ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509895335
- Label
- The distance home
- Title
- The distance home
- Statement of responsibility
- Paula Saunders
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- trueBoy ballet dancers
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueChildhood friends
- trueFamily relationships
- trueRural families
- trueFathers and daughters
- trueSouth Dakota
- trueSibling rivalry
- Father and child -- Fiction
- trueGrowing up
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueEmotional abuse
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- trueBrothers and sisters
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueBallet
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions--the ruggedness and the promise--of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where, for most, there are limited options. Reneþ shares a home, a family, and a passion for dance with her older brother, Leon. Yet for all they have in common, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to Reneþ, a born spitfire, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile, Reneþ excels at everything she touches, basking in the delighted gaze of their father, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. As the years pass, Reneþ and Leon's parents fight with increasing frequency--and ferocity. Their father--a cattle broker--spends more time on the road, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as Reneþ and Leon grow up, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat--a word of praise, a grandmother's outstretched hand, the seductive attention of a stranger--as Reneþ works to save herself, crossing the border into a larger, more hopeful world, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. Tender, searing, and unforgettable, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades--a tale of haves and have-nots, of how our ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another
- Summary
- Two siblings enduring a hardscrabble existence in 1960s rural South Dakota pursue separate but equally extreme measures to find creative outlets and escape the dark, secretive elements of their community
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10685212
- Cataloging source
- QRML
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Saunders, Paula
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Brothers and sisters
- Father and child
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The distance home, Paula Saunders
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000063822478
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509895335
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1014441178
- Label
- The distance home, Paula Saunders
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000063822478
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509895335
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1014441178
Subject
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueBallet
- trueBoy ballet dancers
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueChildhood friends
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueEmotional abuse
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- Father and child -- Fiction
- trueFathers and daughters
- trueFathers and sons
- trueGrowing up
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueRural families
- trueSibling rivalry
- trueSouth Dakota
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