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1932961364 Product Description From the heartlands of the 1880s Upper Midwest comes a morality tale of survival and destiny. About the Author Lloyd Zimpel was born and raised ... in the Upper Midwest. He now lives in San Francisco, where for many years he worked for the California Fair Employment Practice Commission. He is the recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship and the author of a previous novel, Meeting the Bear, as well as numerous short stories. Read more Show Less

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Overview

The patriarch Gerhardt Praeger, a farmer of some education and experience, understands the mixture of hard work, ingenuity, ethic, grace, and sturdiness of spirit required to settle the hard territory of the Dakotas. He, along with his wife and seven sons, must constantly face natural disasters and manmade challenges to carve out their holdings in an unforgiving land that has defeated so many of their neighbors, sending them home to their families back East. Praeger believes God will provide sufficiently, if not in abundance, to those who can resist the twin challenges of pride and greedy over-reaching. But his exasperating new neighbor, the bold Beidermann, stirs both his envy and curiosity to test Praeger's moral
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Overview

The patriarch Gerhardt Praeger, a farmer of some education and experience, understands the mixture of hard work, ingenuity, ethic, grace, and sturdiness of spirit required to settle the hard territory of the Dakotas. He, along with his wife and seven sons, must constantly face natural disasters and manmade challenges to carve out their holdings in an unforgiving land that has defeated so many of their neighbors, sending them home to their families back East. Praeger believes God will provide sufficiently, if not in abundance, to those who can resist the twin challenges of pride and greedy over-reaching. But his exasperating new neighbor, the bold Beidermann, stirs both his envy and curiosity to test Praeger's moral imperatives. His remarkable journal entries chronicle the increasingly tense events between them and are bridged by a compelling narrative that moves their entire universe toward calamity. The result is an almost biblical story of self-revelation, of a man striving to guide his family and to civilize his own impulses as they contend with the wild land.

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With his second novel, essayist and short story writer Zimpel (Meeting the Bear; Journal of the Black Wars) has written a memorable work of historical fiction in the vernacular of 1880s upper Midwest settlers. Much of the action unfolds via the journal entries of Gerhardt Praeger, an older, fairly literate farmer/rancher who shares his home with his earthy wife, Ma, and a brood of seven sons. Capturing Praeger's attention is a new bachelor neighbor, Leo Beiderman, whose knack for self-sufficiency and strokes of good fortune become a source of envy. Beiderman, a grateful yet at times swaggering man, is careful not to seem too greedy as he builds his barn and brings in successful harvests. Still, he often provokes animosity, and even his befriending of the two youngest Praegers, twins who openly admire him, doesn't ease the tensions. Zimpel keenly depicts the hard existence of these settlers, who are often put under by floods, blizzards, pestilence, and drought. With their strong family loyalty, sense of fairness, deep respect for animals, and willingness to help friends and neighbors when catastrophe strikes, the people who inhabit this story are fundamentally commendable folks. And in their world it is fitting that when malice occurs, a sense of justice ultimately prevails. A worthwhile addition to all historical fiction collections and larger library fiction collections.-Maureen Neville, Trenton P.L., NJ Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781932961362
  • Publisher: Unbridled Books
  • Publication date: 5/3/2007
  • Edition description: 11171 Unbridled
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

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  • Posted April 17, 2010

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    Incredible imagery and surprising ending

    If you are interested in historical fiction and have an appreciation for the incredibly hard life homesteaders faced on the midwest prairies, then you will enjoy this book very much.

    Zimpel writes this book from multiple perspectives, giving you insights not only to the character that is narrating but, through that character's eyes, changing what judgements you may have previously formed of other characters. It's quite engaging.

    The plot unfolds as a series of events--from the arrival of a new homesteader to accidents, natural disasters, and the environmental dangers the small community of farmers must face. There is tension in the competition to do better than your neighbor and the necessity to help one another in times of trouble.

    I will not give away the ending. Even if you are somewhat bored when Zimpel spends time (necessary time, in my opinion) describing farming life or the landscapes, push on to that ending. It will be worth it.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    superb historical

    Gerhardt Praeger, an educated farmer, appreciates his pragmatic wife Ma as they raise seven sons on the often hostile Dakota plains. He begins to write his thoughts of events in a journal (diaries are for females) starting in 1882 with the new settler Leo Beidierman and the Swede¿s widow. Over the years as he often scribes in his journal Gerhardt finds Beiderman¿s success and luck unbelievable and envies the man especially after Beiderman befriends his two youngest sons. Still when natural disasters occur, all the people residing nearby help one another even when they are jealous of one of them. --- A SEASON OF FIRE AND ICE is a superb historical that provides insight into the harsh life of living in the Dakota during the 1880s. Nature plays such a strong role in shaping the residents that it is more than just background, it serves as a powerful antagonist at times with floods, blizzards, and droughts often. Loyalty within families and with neighbors is the norm when calamity happens whether that be man-made or natural. Americana readers will enjoy this first hand fictionalized account (and its ¿interleafs¿) of five years in the lives of people in the late nineteenth century. --- Harriet Klausner

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