Overview
In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride--of successes, failures, and above all endurance--leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, The Distancers is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.
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- ISBN-13: 9780345806765
- ISBN-10: 034580676X
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: August 2013
- Dimensions: 8.43 x 4.72 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.51 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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