The Great Far Away

by Joan Frank

Book Overview

The Great Far Away commences in the 1970 s, as a group of young people, seeking to go beyond the restrictions and conformism of their parent s generation, coalesce in a small town in Northern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579621481
• ISBN13: 9781579621483
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
• Length: 141 Pages

Customer Reviews

The past without sentiment

Joan Frank gives those years in the Seventies when people tried to live in sweet harmony with each other and with nature their due. She achieves just the right distance - a backward glance without sentiment. Her characters are young and hopeful; the landscape, still rural and open. Time happens! And Frank doesn't undercut her beautifully written narrative and her people with either nostalgia, cliche or condescension.

Deja Vu Summer of Love

Frank beautifully evokes the time, the people, and the idylic setting beautifully in this portrait of alternative choices during the seventies and their consequnces.