The Distancers: An American Memoir

by Lee Sandlin

Book Overview

In The Distancers , seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic pride--of successes, failures, and above all endurance--leaps...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034580676X
• ISBN13: 9780345806765
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

I loved Wicked River.......

I loved Wicked River and Storm Kings and was excited to see this title. Please note that this book is like neither of those. Probably will not finish.