cam a22 4 4500 551469382 CHVBK 20201027172346.0 181215s2018 nyu |||| 000 f eng| 2017032621 978-0-525-50874-8 hardcover 978-0-525-50875-5 electronic book 40028357383 (NEBIS)011296967 (RERO)R008846976 (VAUD)991021194396102852 (SGBN)001443659 (OCoLC)1002722482 (EXLNZ-41BCULAUSA_NETWORK)991023518834302851 DLC ger SzZuIDS NEBIS ZBZ rda PS3619.A8249 D57 2018 s1an rero 810 15 813/.6 23 B sdnb Saunders Paula Verfasser aut The distance home a novel Paula Saunders First edition New York Random House [2018] 292 Seiten In the years after World War II, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions--the ruggedness and the promise--of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide ; and where, for most, there are limited options. Renee shares a home, a family, and a passion for dance with her older brother, Leon. Yet for all they have in common, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to Renee, a born spitfire, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile, Reneeexcels at everything she touches, basking in the delighted gaze of their father, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. As the years pass, Renee and Leon's parents fight with increasing frequency--and ferocity. Their father--a cattle broker--spends more time on the road, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as Renee and Leon grow up, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat--a word of praise, a grandmother's outstretched hand, the seductive attention of a stranger--as Renee works to save herself, crossing the border into a larger, more hopeful world, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. Tender, searing, and unforgettable, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades--a tale of haves and have-nots, of how our ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another Families Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Father and child Fiction Father and child Fiction FICTION Family Life bisacsh Families fast Families Fiction (RERO)B020375854 Novels fast Domestic fiction fast Fiction fast Domestic fiction lcgft Novels lcgft Domestic fiction Roman (RERO)A021100981 rero Fiktionale Darstellung gnd-content BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 zbzmon201901f wuet zbzswk201901k trun idszbz Z2 NAB Z01 s1an rnv kfb SGBN RERO RE01003 RE01003 RE010030001 NA 2018.8653 VAUD bcur bcur RIA 8995 ENGLISH 810020020 NEBIS Z01 Z01 02 2019 A 10069 SGBN SGKSH SGKSH BIBEN SAUN NEBIS 100 1- Saunders Paula Verfasser aut RERO 100 1- Saunders Paula 1957- (RERO)A027718746 cre VAUD 100 1- Saunders Paula aut SGBN 100 1- Saunders Paula Verfasser aut NEBIS ZAD50 EBI01 Z01 https://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf03/z01_978-0-525-50874-8_01.pdf Titelblatt und Inhaltsverzeichnis VIEW pdf