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Atomic Farmgirl: The Betrayal of Chief Qualchan, the Appaloosa, and Me
by Hein, Teri
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1555914438
- ISBN 13
- 9781555914431
- Seller
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Arvada, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Delightful and touching memoir of growing up in Eastern Washington farm country, an area that received fallout from Hanford Nuclear facility.
Synopsis
Atomic Farmgirl is a wise, irreverent, deeply personal story of growing up right in the wrong place. The granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poignant backdrop to her story, for one hundred miles to the south of this idyllic, all-American setting lay the toxins — both mental and physical — of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From horseback riding to haying, Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, Atomic Farmgirl chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community of hardworking, patriotic folk, whose way of life — and livelihood — are gradually threatened by the poisons of progress. Combining a profoundly tender story of youth with politics and an unmistakable sense of place, Teri Hein has written a memoir that is part Terry Tempest Williams, part Erin Brockovich, part Garrison Keillor. In the end, she offers a rich and ribald journey into the universal mysteries of childhood, love, community, and home, a journey that confirms humankind’s infinite capacity for hope.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Algonquin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12630
- Title
- Atomic Farmgirl: The Betrayal of Chief Qualchan, the Appaloosa, and Me
- Author
- Hein, Teri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1555914438
- ISBN 13
- 9781555914431
- Publisher
- Fulcrum
- Place of Publication
- Golden, CO
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Autobiography. Memoi, Eastern Washington, Palouse, environmen,; Hanford nuclear, radiation; Fairfield Lutheran church. farm life, rural childhood
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Algonquin Books
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Arvada, Colorado
About Old Algonquin Books
Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
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