Mendel's Children: A Family Chronicle

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9781895176858 ISBN: 1895176859 Label: Michigan State University Press Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 175 Publication Date: 1997-10 Publisher: Michigan State University Press Studio: Michigan State University Press
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Ordinary family rendered extraordinary Comment: In honest, unpretentious and clean prose leavened with dry humor, Smith tells an engrossing and upbeat story. With tantalizing recipes and charming photographs Mendel's Children has something of the character of a family scrapbook. Customer Rating: Summary: Book breathes life into family Comment: Its depth comes from Smith's formidable ability to breathe life into the time worn stories and people that preceeded her. In this her book shares the light story-telling charms of her fellow prairie author, Garrison Keillor. But in the serious and poignant moments that balance the humor, Smith's touch could be compared to Gay Talese in Unto the Sons. Customer Rating: Summary: Freshness. insight and humor Comment: Cherie Smith investigates the past with freshness, insight, and humor, but entirely without pretense. Saints and sinners, Mendel's Children have one thing in common: they are folks you would have enjoyed meeting. Customer Rating: Summary: Authentic Comment: No historian or general reader will doubt the authenticity of her portrayal of life in small Canadian towns or regret coming across such a work Customer Rating: Summary: Storytelling skill Comment: Written with such storytelling skill, with such honest and compassionate clarity, that the reader turns page after page with growing fascination. More Reviews