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With equal doses of personal revelation and environmental advocacy, a writer and environmentalist describes her impoverished childhood in rural Georgia and her attempts to save the endangered ecosystem of that oft-neglected region. This book was chosen as the best nonfiction title of 1999 by the Southeast Booksellers Association. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
| Size | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"What sets ECOLOGY OF A CRACKER CHILDHOOD apart is the ambitious and arresting mission implied in its title. Ray's lament for a lost landscape and a lost way of life centers on a South that has little acquaintance with cotillions, columned mansions or cotton plantations....[Her] passion for preserving and restoring this unsung landscape is heartfelt and refreshing. Ray's paeans to pokeweed and yellow pine become repetitive....[But h]er prose is much leaner and more affecting when she returns to the raw, man-made world in which she was raised, and the resourceful 'crackers' who inhabit it."
Horwitz
"It's a compelling story, briefly told: For all the pine cones on its pages, [this book] is a bit short on biology, or even cracklin' good natural history....No matter: The memoir is better reading anyway, building from well-told tales of a skinned-knee girlhood in the junkyard flats of south Georgia."
Austin Chronicle - Jay Hardwig (09/19/2000)
"In [this book], you can open any page and out will fall words like pressed flowers and autumn leaves, vivid souvenirs of joy and loss....A memoir, a family history, and the ecology of a dying place, the book pivots between land and people, embracing both as rare and fragile. We are swept along like the resinous odor of pine needles in the balmy wind."
Bloomsbury Review - Glenda Burnside (01/01/2000)
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