Adele Crockett Robertson

The Orchard

A Memoir

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The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Recently discovered by the author's daughter, it tells the story of Adele Kitty Robertson, young and energetic, but unprepared by her Radcliffe education for the rigors of apple farming in those bitter times. Alone at the end of a country road, with only a Great Dane for company, plagued by debts, broken machinery, and killing frosts, Kitty revives the old orchard after years of neglect. Every day is a struggle, but every day she is also rewarded by the beauty of the world an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-553-37859-7
EAN: 9780553378597
Produktnummer: 19342079
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.0 cm 279 g
Gewicht: 279

Über den Autor

Adele Crockett Robertson was an award-winning writer from New England. John Updike called her memoir The Orchard brave and beautiful. Her essays and columns frequently appeared in the Ipswich Chronicle and were compiled into a book called Measuring Time-by an Hourglass under the name Kitty Crockett Robertson.