The distancers : an American memoir / Lee Sandlin.

In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and un...

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Main Author: Sandlin, Lee
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2013.
Subjects:
Sandlin, Lee.
Sandlin, Lee > Family.
German Americans > Middle West > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family Relationships.
Middle West > Social life and customs.
Middle West > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:xix, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Just shy of the Mississippi
  • Bosh's only idea
  • The last of the Old Country
  • The champion distancer
  • We can't take care of our own
  • The world doesn't owe you a living
  • War fever
  • Nobody would ever guess
  • One last parade
  • Things they never told
  • This is all I know
  • Heilongjiang.