Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory - Softcover

Skwiot, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975371398 ISBN 13: 9780975371398

Publisher: Consumer Advocate Pr Llc, 2005

Synopsis

After learning that his father''s layoff at a steel mill threatens their country home on a fateful Christmas Eve in 1953, a six-year-old boy works frantically to save it in this poignant memoir that depicts a simpler, more innocent, and, in some ways, more free America. Part true novel, part social history, this book is a paean to a lost world, depicting with detail a shy yet curious child''s world of freedom and discovery. A rich, sensory, and aesthetic journey through frozen lakes, frosted fields, squawking jays, and the muted palette of gray Illinois winter afternoons, the tale takes readers back to an era of coal stoves, hand pumps, and fragrant markets. Chronicling the family''s loss of their bucolic paradise, this work foreshadows a nation''s loss of innocence and serves as a microcosm of America''s postwar migration from rural life to urban homesteads.

About this title

About the Author:

Former journalist Rick Skwiot is the author of three previous novels--the Hemingway First Novel Award winner Death in Mexico, the Willa Cather Fiction Prize finalist Sleeping With Pancho Villa, and Key West Story--as well as two memoirs: the critically-acclaimed Christmas at Long Lake: A Childhood Memory and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing. He also works as a feature writer, book doctor and editor. From St. Louis, he currently resides in Key West. rickskwiot.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Consumer Advocate Pr Llc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0975371398
• ISBN 13: 9780975371398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 111