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The Farm in the Green Mountains: Nyrb Classics

Autor Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2017
The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont

Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over, and Carl's most recent success--a play satirizing German militarism--impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn't suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years.

In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes "like babies." But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her "native land." This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.

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ISBN-13: 9781681370743
ISBN-10: 1681370743
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 202 x 127 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Notă biografică

Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, introduction by Elisa Albert, translated from the German by Ida H. Washington and Carol E. Washington