Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living / Karen Auvinen.
A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a primitive mountain cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501152283
- ISBN: 1501152289
- Physical Description: x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The hard prayer -- Part I. Marlboro woman -- Good girl -- Saying no -- Marlboro woman -- Part II. Refuge -- Summer into fall -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Part III. Home of the somewhat feral -- Controlled burn -- Home of the somewhat feral -- Fuck T.S. Eliot -- The book of mornings -- Part IV. A season of voluptuousness -- Loving Elvis -- Yajna: fire ceremony -- A season of voluptuousness -- Epilogue: The fox who came to dinner. |
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Subject: | Auvinen, Karen. Authors, American > 21st century > Biography. Mountain life > Rocky Mountains. Solitude. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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Danville-Center Twp PL - Danville | B Auv (Text) | 32604000205061 | AD Biography | Available | - |
Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | 921 AUV (Text) | 33187004371841 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Jay Co PL - Portland | B A942k (Text) | 76383000460132 | Adult Biographies | Available | - |
Mooresville PL - Mooresville | 921 AUV (Text) | 37323005399020 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Morgan Co PL - Waverly Branch | B AUV (Text) | 78551000537099 | Biography | Available | - |
New Castle-Henry County PL - New Castle | 978.8034 AUVI (Text) | 39231033468980 | Adult Non-fiction Collection | Available | - |
Plainfield-Guilford Twp PL - Plainfield | 921 Auvinen (Text) | 31208912584408 | non-fiction | Available | - |
Porter County PL - Hebron Public Library | 921 AUVINEN (Text) | 33410014888947 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Putnam County Public Library - Main | 978.03 AUV (Text) | 30041002253688 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Shelby Co PL - Shelbyville Main Library | BIO AUV (Text) | 78731000505997 | Biography | Available | - |