Americans - Regional Biography, United States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region, United States Studies, US & Canadian Literary Biography
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Overview
The setting is the wild and remote Catskill Mountain High Peaks region known today as Platte Clove. The years are 1899-1903. At once a fascinating window on manners and mores in rural America a century ago, and an important work for Dreiser scholars-the author was a close literary friend of Theodore Dreiser ("Sister Carrie," "An American Tragedy")-this is a charming, beautifully-written memoir of the age-old quest for "the simple life. But this is a deceptive memoir, for beneath the book's placid surface are waters that ripple with betrayals, infidelities, abandonment, despair and tragedy.Synopsis
The setting is the wild and remote Catskill Mountain High Peaks region known today as Platte Clove. The years are 1899-1903. At once a fascinating window on manners and mores in rural America a century ago, and an important work for Dreiser scholars-the author was a close literary friend of Theodore Dreiser ("Sister Carrie," "An American Tragedy")-this is a charming, beautifully-written memoir of the age-old quest for "the simple life. But this is a deceptive memoir, for beneath the book's placid surface are waters that ripple with betrayals, infidelities, abandonment, despair and tragedy.
Book Details
Published
July 1, 2000
Publisher
Black Dome Press, Corporation
Pages
206
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781883789244