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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Pedlar Pr
Publication date
March 30, 2014
Pages
191
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781897141601
ISBN-10
1897141602
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Published in
Canada
Original list price
$22.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The word nostalgia comes from two Greek rootsânostos, meaning the return home, and algos, meaning pain or longing. The Western Home tells the story of the folk song "Home on the Range" through characters seeking to integrate their experiences of upheaval and alienation into meaning and identityâto transform their longing into belonging, their pain into understandingâby retreat to the safety of an ideal. "Home on the Range" is the protagonist of The Western Home, and the supporting characters are the people who helped shape the song's destiny by writing, rewriting, singing, recording, claiming and disowning it. Each story in the collection takes place in a different decade following the year of the songâs composition as a poem, in 1872. Beginning with the lonely, alcoholic pioneer, Brewster Higley, who wrote the poem, and concluding with a disaffected teenager who works in a rural Kansas tourist kiosk near the original site of the poem's composition, this collection explores themes of collective memory, collective forgetting and the loss that is implied in both. Whether they are seeking out ideal landscapes, or pursuing invincible beliefs, or trying to make meaning out of chaos, the characters in these stories are all trying find a way home.
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from Pedlar Pr (March 30, 2014)
9781897141601 | details & prices | 191 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $22.00
About: The word nostalgia comes from two Greek rootsânostos, meaning the return home, and algos, meaning pain or longing.
About: The word nostalgia comes from two Greek rootsânostos, meaning the return home, and algos, meaning pain or longing.
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