The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home
"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book ReviewHas the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it...
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"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book ReviewHas the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns it resembles, Akron, Ohio, has lost its singularity, and much of what native-daughter Pierson loves about it. She then moves to Hoboken, New Jersey, a forgotten appendage of New Yorkuntil stockbrokers discover it. Finally, she speaks of rural areas, telling of the thousands of upstate New Yorkers displaced by city reservoirs.A unique book uniquely of our moment: This is what it feels like to lose the place you love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393329285 (0393329283)
Publish date: January 17th 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
This book was too warm and fuzzy for me. I could not hook up with the overly friendly colloquial tone that suggests reader and writer are buddy-buddy. *“Skyscrapers – why Akron has ‘em!”*“Impending loss. Knowing for sure that loss is coming and prophylactically mourning it. (A poetry that was lost; ...