A Family Place
A Man Returns to the Center of His Life
In the summer of 1990, writer Charles Gaines and his artist wife, Patricia, bought 160 acres of wild land on the northeast coast of Nova Scotia. They believed they were simply buying a remote getaway spot, but within a few months a more complex dream for the property developed. By midwinter, they had begun to see the land as a place where family intimacy might be reclaimed, as a home that might heal their recently battered marriage, and as an opportunity to take on a big, risky, long-term project instead of settling into the caution and gradual losses of middle-class middle age. Enlisting their children and their daughter's carpenter boyfrien…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5107-1791-6
- EAN: 9781510717916
- Produktnummer: 31915151
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'855 KB
- Auflage: Proprietary
Über den Autor
Charles Gaines is the author of the National Book Award finalist Stay Hungry and the international nonfiction bestseller Pumping Iron, as well as being a lifelong sportsman and outdoor adventurer. He serves as US director of the Atlantic Salmon Federation and is a founder and lifetime board member of the US Fly Fishing Team. He lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Birmingham, Alabama. Dave DiBenedetto is the senior vice president and editor-in-chief of Garden & Gun magazine. He is also the author of On the Run: An Angler's Journey down the Striper Coast. DiBenedetto lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Alexander Bridge is a writer and journalist, whose work has appeared in the Montreal Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Boston Globe, among others. He lives in Boylston, Nova Scotia.
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