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Chargement... A Family Place: A Man Returns to the Center of His Lifepar Charles Gaines
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not being into body building or outdoor adventures and the like, I wasn’t familiar with Charles Gaines. I chose this book simply because the description of it sounded like something I would benefit from. Gaines, along with his family and friends, built a cabin on land he and his wife Patricia bought in Nova Scotia. The project was ostensibly an attempt to save their failing marriage. It turned out to be much more than that, although, it was successful in doing that. Gaines is obviously a gifted writer. This book is beautifully written. He’s also something of a philosopher. All of this comes in the outer shell of a true man’s man. He wrote probably the most famous body building story of all time, “Pumping Iron,” the documentary that catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger to fame. Gaines has written numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction, many of them best sellers. He is also an inventor. Among his most famous inventions is the game of paintball. He certainly didn’t need to write this book; his legacy had been well established by that time and by the time it was reprinted and released 25 years later. He wrote this book for himself and for readers, like me, who might be inspired by it. I’m glad he did. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In the summer of 1990, writer Charles Gaines and his artist wife, Patricia, bought 160 acres of wild land on the northeast coast of Nova Scotia. They believed they were simply buying a remote getaway spot, but within a few months a more complex dream for the property developed. By midwinter, they had begun to see the land as a place where family intimacy might be reclaimed, as a home that might heal their recently battered marriage, and as an opportunity to take on a big, risky, long-term project instead of settling into the caution and gradual losses of middle-class middle age. Enlisting their children and their daughter's carpenter boyfriend, they decided to build a cabin on the land the following summer, to build it with their own hands, as a family venture. A Family Place gracefully mixes a narrative of that summer's sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking events with passages of the family's history that show its members as real people and dramatize what is at stake for each of them in Nova Scotia. Gaines describes the process of building a cabin while living in tents without electricity or running water, and the pleasures and limitations of a life so simplified that a week's biggest social event is a bonfire. He draws a deft portrait of the small, generous, hearth-centered Acadian community of farmers and lobster fishermen surrounding their land, and traces the history of that land to its original French-Acadian owner. And he tracks the mood of his family through the long, difficult summer, from initial enthusiasm to near mutiny, and finally to exhilaration and deep satisfaction at having built something that will last, having rebuilt a family in the process. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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