《Traplines : Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley》是2004年11月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是John Rember。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Traplines : Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley
- 作者：John Rember
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781400031115
內容簡介
In 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, wherehe had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: thesame forty acres that had sustained his family’s horses hadsustained a vision of a place where he belonged in the world, alife where he could get up in the morning, step out the door, andcatch dinner from the Salmon River. But to his surprise, he foundthat what was once familiar was now unfamiliar. Everything mighthave looked the same to the horses that spring, but to Rember thiswas no longer home.
In Traplines, Rember recounts his experiences of growing upin a time when the fish were wild in the rivers, horses werebrought into the valley each spring from their winter pasture, andelectric light still seemed magical. Today those same experiencesno longer seem to possess the authenticity they once did. In hisjourney home, Rember discovers how the West, both as a place inwhich to live and as a terrain of the imagination, has beentransformed. And he wonders whether his recollections of what oncewas prevent him from understanding his past and appreciating whathe found when he returned home. In Traplines, Rember excavates thehidden desires that color memory and shows us how, once revealed,they can allow us to understand anew the stories we tellourselves.
