Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory

by Rick Skwiot

Overview

Award-winning novelist Rick Skwiot's critically acclaimed account of a rustically charming yet fateful childhood Christmas, with a family and a nation on the brink of unsettling change and loss of innocence. It takes us to an America that was simpler, safer and in some ways more free. In it we see not only how far we have come but also how much we have lost. Learn more at www.christmas-at-long-lake.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982859131
Publisher:	Antaeus Books, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Pages:	156
Sales rank:	857,141
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	9 Years

Editorial Reviews

Though memoir can be dangerous territory for the nonfamous who haven't crashed a plane or climbed a mountain, fiction writer Skwiot (Sleeping with Pancho Villa) successfully renders an alchemical mix of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Herein he recounts his six-year-old self's experience on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1953, when his working-class family was living in a converted fishing cabin on an Illinois lake and his unemployed father was offered a job that would mean moving to the city. Skwiot's vivid descriptions of the physical and emotional landscape of this environment are poignant, entertaining, and instructional, though some of the more visceral details of hunting and country life may be too much for younger or more squeamish readers. There is magic in this depiction of a setting and a way of life that can be described only as Edenic, an era not long removed in terms of time, but now very distant from the circumstances of modern life. Recommended for public libraries.-Alison M. Lewis, Drexel Univ. Lib., Philadelphia Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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