Fireweed (Bison Book) | 
| Author: Mildred Walker Creator: Annick Smith Publisher: Bison Books Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 740335
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 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Giving great service since 2004: Buy from the Best! 4,000,000 items shipped to delighted customers. We have 1,000,000 unique items ready to ship! Find your Great Buy today!
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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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