Summary
Homefield: A Prairie Sonata
At the end of the Vietnam War, Calvin Parsons, a war resistor who fled to Mexico, returns to his childhood home to work on the family farm, only to run headfirst into the farm crisis of the 1970s.
Peopled with unforgettable characters such as Calvin’s Uncle Karl and Aunt Martha, “Buckwheat” Van Anders, and Mike McCormick and his wife, this novel resonates with the life of the Great Plains. Perhaps inevitably for a story set in this vast and often …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781300796411 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1300796413 |
| Author: | Robert Richter |
| Publisher: | Lulu.com |
| Imprint: | Lulu.com |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 332 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 445g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Robert Richter
Robert Richter is the author of a dozen books, including poetry, fiction, and regional history. His work is inspired by his fifty-year relationship with Latin America and its cultural geography. In 2000, Richter won the Nebraska Arts Council’s Literary Achievement Award for nonfiction. In 2007, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Buenos Aires. Richter has also been a wheat farmer, substitute teacher, and tour guide in Latin America. Besides the ‘Something’ series, Richter’s other books on Mexico include Search for the Camino Real: a history of San Blas and the Road to get there; Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Roots of Mexico’s New Democracy; and Sayulita: Mexico’s Lost Coastal Village Culture, which received the Silver Award in the multicultural division of the Kopps-Fetherling International Book Awards in 2020.
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