The Distancers: An American Memoir

By Lee Sandlin

Book Overview

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 uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride--of successes, failures, and above all endurance--leaps off the page in a sweeping American family epic. Touching on The Great Depression, WWII, and the American immigrant experience, the uses of proper manners, The Distancers is a beautiful and stark Midwestern drama, about a time and place long since vanished, where the author learned the value of family and the art of keeping one's distance.

• Format: MP3 CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1664689494
• ISBN13: 9781664689497
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.

Customer Reviews

I loved Wicked River.......

I loved Wicked River and Storm Kings and was excited to see this title. Please note that this book is like neither of those. Probably will not finish.