A Son of the Middle Border

Name: A Son of the Middle Border
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Hamlin Garland
ISBN: 9781455106394

Author: Hamlin Garland

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 13 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle Border, Garlands bittersweet narrative of growing up on a Wisconsin farm, captures in vivid, moving detail the stories of the thousands of courageous and optimistic Americans who sought new and prosperous lives on the midwestern frontier and discovered not only the grandeur of the plains, but the immense toll nature demands from those who try to tame the land.

About Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was an American writer born in West Salem, Wisconsin. In short stories, verse, and novels, he vividly described the farm life of the Midwest. A Daughter of the Middle Border, the sequel to his autobiographical A Son of the Middle Border, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library

Review originally published February 2019 I'd like to recommend to you a book that I prize. Of course, it is a title readily available through La Crosse County Library, but I actually purchased a copy of my own at the author's home in West Salem. A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland is an......more

Goodreads review by J.

A sort of coming-of-age memoir, from the 19th century. The son of a civil war vet in the Midwest, Garland hated farming and the frontier, and was delighted to (after some adjustment) find a living in the city. Not much in the way of countryside paeans from him, though there was a lot of Georgism --......more

Goodreads review by Therese

Found this on accident: didn't know it was written in the lofty florid prose of the turn of the last century. But it was still so very readable. And what's more (all this before I researched Garland)...it said "farm work is a horrible way to live if you can get anything better." That honestly was no......more