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Author Auvinen, Karen, author.

Title Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living / Karen Auvinen.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2018.
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY AUVINEN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B AUVINEN KAREN A    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B AUVINEN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  978 AUV    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B AUVINEN, KAREN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B AUVINEN, KAREN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  978.8 AUVINEN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  978.8 AUV    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.80 AUV    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG AUVINEN, KAREN    Check Shelf

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue: The hard prayer -- Part I. Marlboro woman -- Good girl -- Saying no -- Marlboro woman -- Part II. Refuge -- Summer into fall -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Part III. Home of the somewhat feral -- Controlled burn -- Home of the somewhat feral -- Fuck T.S. Eliot -- The book of mornings -- Part IV. A season of voluptuousness -- Loving Elvis -- Yajna: fire ceremony -- A season of voluptuousness -- Epilogue: The fox who came to dinner.
Summary A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a primitive mountain cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.
Subject Auvinen, Karen.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Mountain life -- Rocky Mountains.
Solitude.
Mountain life -- Rocky Mountains.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Nonfiction.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781501152283 (hardback)
1501152289 (hardback)
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