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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Feb 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Retail Price: $15.00
Pages: 176
Descended from the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alison Deming appropriately begins this philosophical autobiography along the shores of the North Atlantic -- on Grand Manan Island, in the Bay of Fundy. Moving on to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and then to Tucson, Arizona, and Paomoho, Hawaii, Deming describes places that are dear to her because their ways are still shaped by terms nature has set, though less and less so.
With vivid ideas and passion, Deming writes about the importance of nat