Home Ground

by Cecelia Holland

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394504054
• ISBN13: 9780394504056
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Recent history from a great historical fiction writer.

I just reread this book. I read it first back in the seventies. I gave a copy to my son who was in college at the time apreciate it. This is really his review fifteen years later. "I remember the whole story pretty much(strong heroine, Like Mendoza in Floating Worlds, her wonderful historical science fiction). It's funny how Home Ground is an historical fiction now too, though written as contemporary at the time. A novel about an odd post-60s-period, where people are trying to figure out what to do with their lives. Sort of the hangover of the sixties is how I remember it. The "Home Grounmd" being a place to recover,(it was a bad relationshp she'd been in, the whole novel starting off after some crisis that's only alluded to..I like that..) and it was her brother's place, a falling apart commune. So much of what I recall are images, Her seeing a story in something and chasing it down on paper. Her odd love/hate interest, the odd man she connects with though she's not sure she likes him, friends daughter whom she loves. I related to her whole having to figure things out for heraelf adventure. Anyway I'm going to reread it." That is praise for a book read so long ago.