Stay here with me
a memoir
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1996 - Metropolitan Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
51,750 words, Guess
Page Count
207 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL803559M
- ISBN-100805041621
- OCLC Control Number33243943
- OCLC Control Numberstayherewithmeme00olms
- Library of Congress Control Number95040037
and 2 more
- LibraryThing477285
- Goodreads1144498
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3565.L67 Z474 1996
Description
Robert Olmstead has peopled his fiction with the laconic, rough-hewn farmers, loggers, and hired hands of rural New England mountain towns where getting drunk, getting into fights, and getting thrown out of bars are the normal rites of passage. In Stay Here with Me he draws directly from his own experience as he journeys back to his youth on his grandfather's dairy farm in New Hampshire to confront the ghosts that continue to afflict him. Authentic, intimate, and intense, Stay Here with Me is about coming of age and leaving home, about the acts of rebellion that free the body even as they bind the soul to a place forever. Olmstead lays bare the acute pain of his father's alcoholism and the shattering decline of his grandfather, the family patriarch. With delicate sensuality, he traces the flowering of his love for a woman who "walks like light would walk if it could." And throughout, there is the land where his family has worked and lived and died for six generations, land at once richly abundant and cruelly demanding.
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