The Wilder life : my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
(2011)
By:
McClure, Wendy
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
813.52/MCCLURE,W
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Riverhead Books, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
336 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594487804 (alk. paper) :, 1594487804 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Our past life -- Whose woods these are -- Going to town -- Good girls and golden curls -- There is a happy land far, far away -- The way home -- There won't be horses -- Fragments of a dream -- Anywhere East or South -- The road back -- Be it enacted -- Unremembered
In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (I'm Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of "Laura World" (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family)