Fireweed (Bison Book) | 
| Author: Mildred Walker
Creator: Annick Smith
Publisher: Bison Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 882336
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 314
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0803297580
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780803297586
ASIN: 0803297580
Publication Date: April 1, 1994
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Condition: A nice copy. Gently used. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings. Softly worn around edges and corners. Binding solid and tight.
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Product Description
Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers. Radios and flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to escape from an isolated place where wild violet fireweed grows to the edge of the woods.
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Marriage in a small town October 24, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
In Mildred Walker's Fireweed she examines one young woman's life in a small town. The life of her young heroine is told so matter a factly yet it is so powerful.The young girl has dreams of moving to a big city, becoming famous, important and independent of her current life. Ultimately her life becomes all the things she is determined it will not be; burdened with marriage, children and financial concerns in her own hometown. Fireweed transports the reader so completely into anothers life yet causes them to reflect on their own life, the decisions they have made and where those decisions have taken them.
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