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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Year
- 2014
- Special Attributes
- Dust Jacket
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9781594204432
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594204438
ISBN-13
9781594204432
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175218207
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gone Feral : Tracking My Dad Through the Wild
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-039981
Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle " [R]iveting ... a mission to reconcile the romantic image she has conjured of her absent father with the troubled man he truly is... Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and co-author of The Essential Urban Farmer , Carpenter captures her scrappy, resourceful life with vivid detail and candor. We see her riding her bike in a fake-fur hat to find leafy branches for her Nigerian Dwarf goats to eat; we see the sticky bee frames piled in the corner of her living room; we see her and her partner Bill wrestle with their longing to bring a child into their unconventional life. Carpenter brings the reader so close , we can smell the chevre-like scent of her goat Milky Way's head, can feel the hot knife she presses to her skin after a bad breakup in her younger years... Carpenter reminds us that sometimes the self is the thorniest wilderness of all." Booklist "Spurred on by a desire to raise a family of her own and decipher the genetic code for either survival or destruction that she might be passing on, Carpenter performs a wild pas de deux with the cantankerous George, approaching him as one would a wild animal with no trust in humanity. Carpenter chronicles her daring quest for understanding and familial continuity in this sincere and remarkably uninhibited memoir." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love " I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book . It's gratifying to see a woman take on the question that has pulled at male authors for so long - namely, 'What am I to make of my old man?' In her efforts to answer that question (and to reconsider and reconcile her own complicated family history) Carpenter goes on nothing less than a vision quest , in search of answers from a particularly reticent and strange father. T he resulting journey is both brave and honest . There is much to be learned here for all daughters - about acceptance, about redemption, about the distances we must go at times to find our own deepest familial truths." Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones "Novella Carpenter couldn't be more fun to hang out with on the page . Gone Feral is full of scruffiness and wit, melancholy and compassion . It's an extraordinary portrait of a father and daughter doing their best to be family." Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness and In the Kingdom of Men "Novella Carpenter is a delightful storyteller , and Gone Feral reads like a fable, full of wild and unknown things , including a trickster father, whose mountain man fantasies and failed dreams lead the author on her own sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey of discovery.", A Library Journal Best Book of 2014 San Francisco Chronicle " [R]iveting ... a mission to reconcile the romantic image she has conjured of her absent father with the troubled man he truly is... Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and co-author of The Essential Urban Farmer , Carpenter captures her scrappy, resourceful life with vivid detail and candor. We see her riding her bike in a fake-fur hat to find leafy branches for her Nigerian Dwarf goats to eat; we see the sticky bee frames piled in the corner of her living room; we see her and her partner Bill wrestle with their longing to bring a child into their unconventional life. Carpenter brings the reader so close , we can smell the chevre-like scent of her goat Milky Way's head, can feel the hot knife she presses to her skin after a bad breakup in her younger years... Carpenter reminds us that sometimes the self is the thorniest wilderness of all." Booklist "Spurred on by a desire to raise a family of her own and decipher the genetic code for either survival or destruction that she might be passing on, Carpenter performs a wild pas de deux with the cantankerous George, approaching him as one would a wild animal with no trust in humanity. Carpenter chronicles her daring quest for understanding and familial continuity in this sincere and remarkably uninhibited memoir." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love " I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book . It's gratifying to see a woman take on the question that has pulled at male authors for so long - namely, 'What am I to make of my old man?' In her efforts to answer that question (and to reconsider and reconcile her own complicated family history) Carpenter goes on nothing less than a vision quest , in search of answers from a particularly reticent and strange father. T he resulting journey is both brave and honest . There is much to be learned here for all daughters - about acceptance, about redemption, about the distances we must go at times to find our own deepest familial truths." Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones "Novella Carpenter couldn't be more fun to hang out with on the page . Gone Feral is full of scruffiness and wit, melancholy and compassion . It's an extraordinary portrait of a father and daughter doing their best to be family." Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness and In the Kingdom of Men "Novella Carpenter is a delightful storyteller , and Gone Feral reads like a fable, full of wild and unknown things , including a trickster father, whose mountain man fantasies and failed dreams lead the author on her own sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey of discovery.", Booklist "Spurred on by a desire to raise a family of her own and decipher the genetic code for either survival or destruction that she might be passing on, Carpenter performs a wild pas de deux with the cantankerous George, approaching him as one would a wild animal with no trust in humanity. Carpenter chronicles her daring quest for understanding and familial continuity in this sincere and remarkably uninhibited memoir." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love " I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book . It's gratifying to see a woman take on the question that has pulled at male authors for so long - namely, 'What am I to make of my old man?' In her efforts to answer that question (and to reconsider and reconcile her own complicated family history) Carpenter goes on nothing less than a vision quest , in search of answers from a particularly reticent and strange father. T he resulting journey is both brave and honest . There is much to be learned here for all daughters - about acceptance, about redemption, about the distances we must go at times to find our own deepest familial truths." Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones "Novella Carpenter couldn't be more fun to hang out with on the page . Gone Feral is full of scruffiness and wit, melancholy and compassion . It's an extraordinary portrait of a father and daughter doing their best to be family." Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness and In the Kingdom of Men "Novella Carpenter is a delightful storyteller , and Gone Feral reads like a fable, full of wild and unknown things , including a trickster father, whose mountain man fantasies and failed dreams lead the author on her own sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey of discovery."
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.874/2
Synopsis
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love "I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest." A Library Journal Best Book of 2014 Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news: her father has officially gone missing. Carpenter s father, George a back-to-the-land homesteader and troubled Korean War veteran has spent decades battling his inner demons while largely absenting himself from his children s lives. Though George is ultimately found, Carpenter is forced to confront the truth: her time with her dad now seventy-three years old is limited, and the moment to restore their relationship is now. Gone Feral is the story of Carpenter s search for her parents broken past in the harsh wilds of Idaho. The story starts in San Miguel de Allende in 1969, where Carpenter s free-spirited parents meet and fall in love. Their whirlwind romance continues through Europe and ends on 180 acres near Idaho s Clearwater River. Carpenter and her sister are born into a free, roaming childhood, but soon the harsh reality of living on the land loneliness, backbreaking labor tears the family apart. Carpenter s mother packs the girls and heads for the straight life in Washington State while George remains on the ranch, tied to the land and his vision of freedom. In Gone Feral, Carpenter now a grown woman leading an untraditional life, not unlike her parents, raising livestock and growing vegetables in the city finds herself contemplating a family of her own. Before that can happen, she knows she has to return to Idaho to discover why her father chose this life of solitude. She quickly finds that George is not living the principled, romantic life she imagined, and the truth is more com-plicated and dangerous than anything she suspected. As she comes to know the real George, Carpenter looks to her own life and comes to recognize her father s legacy in their shared love of animals, of nature, and of the written word; their dangerous stubbornness and isolating independence. Finally, Gone Feral sees the birth of Carpenter s own daughter, an experience that teaches that a parent s love is itself a wild thing: unknowable, fierce, and ever changing. In reckoning with her past, Carpenter clears the road to her future. Raw, funny, unsentimental, alive with unforgettable characters and pitch-perfect dialogue, Gone Feral marks Carpenter s transformative passage from daughter to mother, a wry and rough tale of life lived on the margins and redemption between generations. San Francisco Chronicle R]iveting ... Carpenter reminds us that sometimes the self is the thorniest wilderness ofall." Booklist "Spurred on by a desire to raise a family of her own and decipher the genetic code for either survival or destruction that she might be passing on, Carpenter performs a wild pas de deux with the cantankerous George, approaching him as one would a wild animal with no trust in humanity. Carpenter chronicles her daring quest for understanding and familial continuity in this sincere and remarkably uninhibited memoir." ", Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love "I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest." A Library Journal Best Book of 2014 Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news: her father has officially gone missing. Carpenter's father, George-a back-to-the-land homesteader and troubled Korean War veteran-has spent decades battling his inner demons while largely absenting himself from his children's lives. Though George is ultimately found, Carpenter is forced to confront the truth: her time with her dad-now seventy-three years old-is limited, and the moment to restore their relationship is now. Gone Feral is the story of Carpenter's search for her parents' broken past in the harsh wilds of Idaho. The story starts in San Miguel de Allende in 1969, where Carpenter's free-spirited parents meet and fall in love. Their whirlwind romance continues through Europe and ends on 180 acres near Idaho's Clearwater River. Carpenter and her sister are born into a free, roaming childhood, but soon the harsh reality of living on the land-loneliness, backbreaking labor-tears the family apart. Carpenter's mother packs the girls and heads for the straight life in Washington State while George remains on the ranch, tied to the land and his vision of freedom. In Gone Feral, Carpenter-now a grown woman leading an untraditional life, not unlike her parents', raising livestock and growing vegetables in the city-finds herself contemplating a family of her own. Before that can happen, she knows she has to return to Idaho to discover why her father chose this life of solitude. She quickly finds that George is not living the principled, romantic life she imagined, and the truth is more com-plicated-and dangerous-than anything she suspected. As she comes to know the real George, Carpenter looks to her own life and comes to recognize her father's legacy in their shared love of animals, of nature, and of the written word; their dangerous stubbornness and isolating independence. Finally, Gone Feral sees the birth of Carpenter's own daughter, an experience that teaches that a parent's love is itself a wild thing: unknowable, fierce, and ever changing. In reckoning with her past, Carpenter clears the road to her future. Raw, funny, unsentimental, alive with unforgettable characters and pitch-perfect dialogue, Gone Feral marks Carpenter's transformative passage from daughter to mother, a wry and rough tale of life lived on the margins and redemption between generations. San Francisco Chronicle " [R]iveting ... Carpenter reminds us that sometimes the self is the thorniest wilderness of all." Booklist "Spurred on by a desire to raise a family of her own and decipher the genetic code for either survival or destruction that she might be passing on, Carpenter performs a wild pas de deux with the cantankerous George, approaching him as one would a wild animal with no trust in humanity. Carpenter chronicles her daring quest for understanding and familial continuity in this sincere and remarkably uninhibited memoir."
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HQ755.85C3597 2014
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