In the Wilderness Coming of Age in Unknown Country

Name: In the Wilderness Coming of Age in Unknown Country
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ISBN: 9780385478212

ISBN-10: 0385478216

ISBN-13: 9780385478212

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kim Barnes

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Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid-1960's, as automation and a declining economy drove more and more loggers out of the wilderness and into despair, Kim's father dug in and determined to stay. It was then the family turned fervently toward Pentecostalism. It was then things changed. In the Wilderness is the poet's own account of a journey toward adulthood against an interior landscape…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Kim Barnes is the author of "In the Wilderness", which was a 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist, & the winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, awarded biennially to a woman writer early in her career for a work-in-progress of general nonfiction. She lives with her husband & three children in Lenore, Idaho.