Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
16.01.2014
Verlag
Penguin Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
288 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
5823 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780698137486
[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.
The New York Times Book Review
Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the worldand did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans' indifference to history. Could it be true? The j'accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family's past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestorsbeginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711.
As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the wispy but material family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.
The New York Times Book Review
Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the worldand did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans' indifference to history. Could it be true? The j'accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family's past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestorsbeginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711.
As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the wispy but material family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.
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