6/29/2023 0 Comments Land of the pointed firs![]() They melt into the land and the life of the land until they are not stories at all, but life itself." To quote Willa Cather: "The ’Pointed Fir’ sketches are living things caught in the open, with light and freedom and air spaces about them. She writes a New England idyll rooted in friendship, particularly female friendship, weaving stories and conversations, imagery of sea, sky and earth, the tang of salt air and aromatic herbs into an organic "fiction of community" in which themes and form are exquisitely matched. ![]() The masterpiece that established Sarah Orne Jewett among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fictionĬomposed in a series of beautiful web-like sketches, the novel is narrated by a young woman writer who leaves the city to work one summer in the Maine seaport of Dunnet Landing, and stays with the herbalist Mrs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |