Alpine Apprentice Contributor(s): Gorham, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820350729 ISBN-13: 9780820350721 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Collections | Essays |
Dewey: 814.54 |
LCCN: 2016031852 |
Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.48" W x 8.25" (0.66 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Sarah Gorham recounts her childhood education as a rebellious, insecure, angry girl shipped overseas to a tiny international school perched on a mountain shelf in Bernese-Oberland, Switzerland. There, boot camp style, she experienced deprivation, acute embarrassment, and keen educational guidance, all in the name of growing up. The Swiss landscape influenced her with its paradoxes: unforgiving slopes and peaks; government-controlled hills and valleys--so, too, the languages she's obliged to learn: one ruffian, the other militaristic. Though her stay lasted a mere two years, her time there was so crucial in her transition to adulthood that she returns to those years decades later, each and every night in memory and dream. There are brief forays into the science of surviving an avalanche; Sherlock Holmes's faked demise at the Reichenbach Falls; the origins of meringue; and the history of homesickness and its spiritual twin, Sehnsucht. In her travels Gorham tracks an adolescent experience both agonizingly familiar and curiously exotic. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gorham, Sarah: - SARAH GORHAM is a poet, essayist, and president and editor in chief at Sarabande Books, an independent literary press publishing poetry, short fiction, and essays. She is the author of, most recently, Study in Perfect (Georgia), which won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Prospect, Kentucky. |