《claiming ground》是2011年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Laura Bell。
基本介紹
- 中文名：claiming ground
- 作者：Laura Bell
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780307474643
內容簡介
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating fromcollege, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild andunexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin.Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, ayoung woman in a man’s world, she is perhaps the strangest memberof this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins herunabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materialswith which to create a home and family of her own. Yet only throughtime and distance does she acquire the wisdom that allows her tosee the love she lived through and sometimes left behind.By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wifeand mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earthin which to put down roots. Brimming with careful insight andwritten in a spare, radiant prose, her story is a heart-wrenchingode to the rough, enormous beauty of the Western landscape and thepeculiar sweetness of hard labor, to finding oneself even inisolation, to a life formed by nature, and to the redemption oflove, whether given or received.Quietly profound and moving, astonishing in its honesty, in itsdeep familiarity with country rarely seen so clearly, and inbeauties all its own, Claiming Ground is a truly singularmemoir.From the Hardcover edition.
