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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
by Coleman, Melissa
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061958328
- ISBN 13
- 9780061958328
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Harper, 2011. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. 96x17x144. Signed by Author. Inscribed "Jimmy To a great advocate of the land. MLC". Signed copies rarely offered. In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman's parents, Eliot and Sueâa handsome, idealistic young couple from well-to-do familiesâpack a few essentials into their VW truck and abandon the complications of modern reality to carve a farm from the woods. They move to a remote peninsula on the coast of Maine and become disciples of Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of the homesteading bible Living the Good Life. On sixty acres of sandy, intractable land, Eliot and Sue begin to forge a new existence, subsisting on the crops they grow and building a home with their own hands.While they establish a happy family and achieve their visionary goals, the pursuit of a purer, simpler life comes at a price. Winters are long and lean, summers frenetic with the work of the harvest, and the distraction of the many young farm apprentices threatens the Colemans' marriage. Then, one summer day when Melissa is seven, her three-year-old sister, Heidi, wanders off and drowns in the pond where she liked to play. In the wake of the accident, ideals give way to human frailty, divorce, and a mother's breakdownâand ultimately young Melissa is abandoned to the care of neighbors. What really happened, and who, if anyone, is to blame?This Life Is in Your Hands is the search to understand a complicated past; a true story, both tragic and redemptive, it tells of the quest to make a good life, the role of fate, and the power of forgiveness.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010026749
- Title
- This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
- Author
- Coleman, Melissa
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0061958328
- ISBN 13
- 9780061958328
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 96x17x144
- X weight
- 18 oz
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