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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age Hardcover - 2015

by Joyce Carol Oates


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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.

The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become.

In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time--the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.

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A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before

In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly re-creates the early years of her life in western New York State, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colors everything that comes after. From early memories of her relatives to remembrances of a particularly poignant friendship with a red hen, from her first friendships to her first experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is an arresting account of the ways in which Oates's life (and her life as a writer) was shaped by early childhood and how her later work was influenced by a hardscrabble rural upbringing.

In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective recounting of her early years, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self and reveals her nascent experiences of wanting to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. If Alice in Wonderland was the book that changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to look at life as offering end-less adventures, she describes just as unforgettably the harsh lessons of growing up on a farm. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision to truly transport the reader to a bygone place and time, to the lost landscape of the writer's past but also to the lost landscapes of our own earliest, and most essential, lives.

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  • Title The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York
  • Date 2015-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780062408679 / 0062408674
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (State), Authors, American - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 08/01/2015, Page 17
  • BookPage, 09/01/2015, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/01/2015, Page 61
  • New York Times Book Review, 12/03/2015, Page 44
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/06/2015, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 09/15/2015, Page 0
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