Norris, Kathleen.

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography.

Uncorrected Proof. New York, Ticknor & Fields / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. 13.5 x 21cm. (8), 225 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

Nearly 20 years ago, poet Kathleen Norris and her husband moved from New York to the isolated town of Lemmon in northwestern South Dakota, home of her grandparents. Living there radically changed her sense of time and place, forcing her to come to terms with her heritage, her religious beliefs and the land. Norris learned to value the prairie landscape and to cope with the harsh climate. She found small-town life a mass of contradictions: generous hospitality mixed with suspicion of strangers, inertia and a sense of inferiority. One boon to her new life was a community of Benedictine monks; with them she recaptured her (Protestant) Christian faith and discovered inner peace. This is a fine portrait of the High Plains and its people as well as a very personal memoir of a spiritual awakening. [From Publishers Weekly]

• Keywords: American Authors · American Culture · American Landscape · American Literature · American Towns and Places · American Traditions · Dakota · Essays · Memoirs · United States
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780395633205
• Inventory Number: 91250AB

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