The Dark Well: Coming of Age on a Maine Farm

by Shaw, Brenda

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NEW ENGLAND AMERICANA : Audenreed Press, 1997 421 pp. Illustrated. Flawless copy. Appears unread. "With vivid imagery and tender narrative, Brenda Shaw has created both a nostalgic memoir and a personal discovery. Shaw shows that a plain tale, skillfully told, carries a more powerful message than any literary contrivance. The Dark Well is really two stories, cleverly woven into a gripping account of a young girl growing up on a hardscrabble Maine farm during the Depression era. One part of the story reflects the harsh simplicity of farm life amidst the disease, poverty and clinging desperation of the 1930s and 40s in rural Maine. The other part is Shaw's passage through childhood and adolescence in search of the truth regarding her family's dark secrets." -- William Bushnell, The Maine Times. . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6" x 9".