BAD LAND(ISBN=9780679759065) 英文原版
Jonathan Raban ambles and pickshis way across the Montana prairie, called "The Great AmericanDesert" until Congress offered 320-acre tracts of barren land toimmigrants with stardust in their eyes. Raban s prosemakes love to the waves of land, red dirt roads, and skeletons ofhomesteads that couldn t survive the Dirty Thirties. Aspoignant as any romance novel, there s heartbreak in thefailed dreams of the homesteaders, a pang of destiny in thearbitrary way railroad towns were thrown into existence, andinspiration in the heroism of people who ve fashionedlives for themselves by cobbling together homes from the ruinedhouses of those who couldn t make it. Through it all,Raban s voice examines and honors the vast open expansesof land and pays homage to the histories of families who eked outan existence
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