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Indlæser... Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality (1937)af Mabel Dodge Luhan
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This treasure was found in an antique book store In Albuquerque, New Mexico, as I was rummaging through a shelf of lovely dusty books. What a find. Mabel Dodge Luhan's tale of her journey from Santa Fe to Taos, and the life she builds in her new found love, is magnificent and enchanting. Her descriptions of the area she lives in and the Indians are raw and passionate. You can deeply feel her love for these quiet and soulful people. Her tale is brought to life through her delicious words, as well as an intimate, stirring feeling of a woman who has just stepped outside from a dark place to smell fragrant spring flowers of the land for the first time, or of one who has just awakened to a kiss from their true love. Her writing is genius. ( ) This is one of my all time favorite books! It describes a time and place long-gone, rich in atmosphere, new, exciting, completely unique. I came across it in John Coles' Bookshop in La Jolla, California, in 1999. I didn't know anything about Mabel Dodge Luhan or the early Taos years at the time, but the book intrigued me and I gobbled it up, partially because it was so unfamiliar and new. That experience of discovery in a quirky, independent bookstore is exactly what book browsing should be -- serendipity and grace, discovery, excitement, thrill! ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel. She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life. Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving. "I finished it in a state of amazed revelation . . . it is so beautifully compact and consistent. . . . It is going to help many another woman and man to 'take life with the talons' and carry it high."--Ansel Adams No library descriptions found. |
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