An edition of The Wilder life (2011)

The Wilder life

my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie

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An edition of The Wilder life (2011)

The Wilder life

my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie

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In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family).

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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Pages
336

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Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
2012, Penguin Publishing Group
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The Wilder life: my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
2011, Riverhead Books
in English
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
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Table of Contents

Our past life
Whose woods these are
Going to town
Good girls and golden curls
There is a happy land far, far away
The way home
There won't be horses
Fragments of a dream
Anywhere East or South
The road back
Be it enacted
Unremembered.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-336) and index.

Published in
New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.I342 Z768 2011, PS3545.I342Z768 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
336 p. ;
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25670085M
ISBN 10
1594487804
ISBN 13
9781594487804
LCCN
2010044960
OCLC/WorldCat
646111796

Work Description

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder -- a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places McClure has never been to yet somehow knows by heart. She traces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family -- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House -- exploring the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West. The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones -- and find that our old love has only deepened. - Jacket flap.

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