Point Containing Books Cross Creek
| Title | : | Cross Creek |
| Author | : | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 1996 by Scribner (first published 1942) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Classics. Nonfiction |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.07 | 1636 Users | 218 Reviews
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Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling—in the Florida backcountry.Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings describes her life at the Creek with humor and spirit. Her tireless determination to overcome the challenges of her adopted home in the Florida backcountry, her deep-rooted love of the earth, and her genius for character and description result in a most delightful and heartwarming memoir.
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| Original Title: | Cross Creek |
| ISBN: | 0684818795 (ISBN13: 9780684818795) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Containing Books Cross Creek
Ratings: 4.07 From 1636 Users | 218 ReviewsComment On Containing Books Cross Creek
Long time ago Florida Enjoyed this book about a Yankee moving to Florida to write and own a Citrus Grove.This was a reread for me. I didn't realize it until some passages seemed very familiar.I loved her descriptions of Florida's natural beauty including the weather in Summer. Her descriptions of interactions with her neighbors is funny at times and frightening at others.Much of Florida is still like this...both about the natural beauty and the weird characters. Her descriptions of raceBeautiful descriptions of 1930s Florida, when it crawled with wildlife and riotous communities of unimaginable flora. Had a tough time with her blatant white superiority though. If she were writing in today's world her words would have no doubt been "p.c.", but because she wrote nearly 70 years ago during an era when blacks were just two generations out of slavery, her constant use of "Negroes" and "colored" were tough to digest. Made it hard to finish the book. Disregarding that aspect (hard to
Autobiographical stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of The Yearling, about her life in Cross Creek, Florida. She tells of characters like 'Geechee, who is named after the Ogeechee River. 'Geechee was a young black girl who was bought by the author for five dollars to do her housework. Seems like the girl's family was too large to care for her themselves. And there's Mr. Martin and his pigs. No fences in Cross Creek to keep animals in. You have to build them to keep other people's
One of my all-time favourite memoirs, written by the author of The Yearling. It is somewhat dated now in terms of her attitude toward people of colour, but if you can overlook that, it's an extremely well-written and humorous account of her move to a ramshackle house at the back of beyond (actually northern Florida) where she sits on her wooden deck and types stories on her old manual typewriter, observing both the wonders of nature and the interesting humans she encounters in her self-imposed
I really enjoyed this book. Published in 1942, it is an authentic peek into Florida history and is chock full of autobiographical anecdotes as well as insights into Florida plants and animals, farming, hunting, small-town politics, and the local socioeconomics of the times. And throughout it all, Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings breathes great character, humor and insight. I specifically enjoy her approach to writing about all of the nature around her. I noticed this when I
The first half was difficult to read. I wanted very much to hold Rawlings as a bit of an idol: an independent woman of the 30s making her own way in Florida. But I found it very hard to admire her in light of her very raw racism. Although she seems to have had some strong personal relationships with black people, there seems to be always a veil of judgment between her and them -- an otherness that is hard to read. The second half, when Rawlings moves from personal relationships to her
I've never read anything by MKR, not even The Yearling. I had a lovely old copy of that classic, and I gave it away because the movie about the boy and his deer was so sad. I watched it twice and that was it. My only consolation was that "it was just a story." I convinced myself that nothing like that would happen in "real life."I didn't know what to expect from Cross Creek. I was pleased to find a couple of meaningful quotes on the first few pages:p 10 "At one time or another most of us at the
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