The lost landscape [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A writer's coming of age

Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widows Story , an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become. In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and timethe lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives. A Chronicle Of The Author's Hardscrabble Childhood In Rural Western New York State Describes The Family Members, First Friendships, And Early Experiences With Death That Shaped Her Literary Career. We Begin -- Mommy & Me -- Happy Chicken: 1942-1944 -- Discovering Alice: 1947 -- District School #7, Niagara County, New York -- Piper Cub -- After Black Rock -- Sunday Drive -- Fred's Signs -- They All Just Went Away -- Where Had God Gone -- Headlights: The First Death -- The Brush -- An Unsolved Mystery: The Lost Friend -- Start Your Own Business! -- The Lost Sister: An Elegy -- Nighthawk: Recollections Of A Lost Time -- Detroit: Lost City 1962-1968 -- Story Into Film: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? And Smooth Talk -- Photo Shoot: West Eleventh Street, Nyc, March 6, 1970 -- Food Mysteries -- Facts, Visions, Mysteries: My Father Frederic Oates, November 1988 -- A Letter To My Mother Carolina On Her Seventy-eighth Birthday, November 8, 1994 -- When I Was A Little Girl And My Mother Didn't Want Me -- Excerpt, Telephone Conversation With My Father Frederic Oates, May 1999 -- The Long Romance -- My Mother's Quilts. Joyce Carol Oates. Dette er Joyce Carol Oates' fortelling om tøff barndom i det landlige New York State. En nostalgisk skildring med minner om slektninger, et spesielt forhold til en rød høne på familiegården, de første vennskapene, og hennes tidligste erfaringer med døden. De erfaringene som hadde stor innvirkning på kvinnen og forfatteren hun senere skulle bli. I disse memoarene utforsker hun verden gjennom øynene til den yngre Joyce, en fantasifull jente som elsket å fortelle historier om verden og menneskene hun møtte. "Alice in Wonderland" forandret alt og inspirerte henne til å se livet som en serie av endeløse eventyr, mens hun levde på en gård som lærte henne om offer, hardt arbeid og tap. Oates transporterer leseren til en glemt tid og et glemt sted Oates' chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State describes the family members, first friendships, and early experiences with death that shaped her literary career