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Half Wild: Stories

โœ Scribed by MacArthur, Robin


Book ID
109142307
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
416 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062444394

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โœฆ Synopsis


A powerfully authentic new literary voice debuts with stories that carve out a distinctive vision of the wildness and beauty of rural Vermont.

Spanning nearly forty years, the stories in Robin MacArthur's formidable debut give voice to the hopes, dreams, hungers, and fears of a diverse cast of Vermonters--adolescent girls, aging hippies, hardscrabble farmers, disconnected women, and solitary men. Straddling the border between civilization and the wild, they all struggle to make sense of their loneliness and longings in the stark and often isolating enclaves they call home--golden fields and white-veiled woods, dilapidated farmhouses and makeshift trailers, icy rivers and still lakes rouse the imagination, tether the heart, and inhabit the soul.

In "Creek Dippers," a teenage girl vows to escape the fate that has trapped her eccentric, rough-living mother. "Maggie in the Trees" explores the aftershocks of a man who surrenders to his...


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