Cross Creek
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684818795 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) is the celebrated American author of The Yearling, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939
. The Atlantic Monthly It is hard to see how anyone can read Cross Creek without pleasure amounting to glee
Amazon should be ashamed of sending out this product without Leslie J. Waldbaum Amazon should be ashamed of sending out this product without warning the customer. The print was extremely small and whenever a chapter ended the next one began even if it was in the middle of a page.. Bobby Underwood said A Gift of Beauty. Cross Creek is one of the finest memoirs ever written, filled with grace and beauty from one of America's greatest writers, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Perhaps no other writer has so perfectly and honestly captured a place and time like Rawlings did in Cross Creek. It will transport you to that small acreage of backwoods Florida and cause you to wish for a life such as this.Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings purchased a seventy-two acre orange grove in this remote area and fled her aristocratic life in the city to perfect her craft and get published. It is here all her b. The Real Florida Just started reading, but I've read enough previous comments in other sources to know this is a classic tale of the real Florida.
Her tireless determination to overcome the challenges of her adopted home in the Florida backcountry, her deep-rooted love of the earth, and her genius for character and description result in a most delightful and heartwarming memoir.. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings describes her life at the Creek with humor and spirit. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling—in the Florida backcountry.Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature