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In 1955, inspired by a televised automobile advertisement, twelve-year-old Sara Hellerud and her twin sister Susie took up dancing. Like the pair of huckstering ballerinas who sailed over the Buick, they vaulted over milk cans and barbed wire. The TV dancers had provided an irresistible contrast to the workaday world of their family's dairy farm in Polk County, Wisconsin. This and other fantasies shared by the twins enabled them to dance through a tense childhood and adolescence. Sara, the cautious, quietly observant twin, narrates this reminiscence of sisters whose dreams were intermittently encouraged or dashed by their ambitious, stout-hearted Norwegian-American mother and their alternately abusive and loving Danish-American father, who felt enslaved by his land and cattle. The twins' emotionally fragile older sister, mischievous younger brother, and sturdy baby sister each found ways to cope. This is a personal portrayal of parents, siblings, family, and neighbors who painted the rural landscape in somber tones of duty and self-sacrifice, yet touched it with hope and grace. From the vantage of middle-age, Sara recalls her early years with pride and humor as well as a deep sense of loss. She also explores the process through which the twins unraveled their symbiotic, almost merged, identity to become independent young women eager to investigate the wider world.
Detalles
- Título Dancing the Cows Home: A Wisconsin Girlhood
- Autor Sara de Luca
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición FIRST EDITION
- Páginas 242
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Minnesota Historical Society Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Fecha de publicación 1996-06-15
- ISBN 9780873513258 / 0873513258
- Peso 0.77 libras (0.35 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.05 x 5.56 x 0.77 pulgadas (20.45 x 14.12 x 1.96 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Cultural Region: Great Lakes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Geographic Orientation: Minnesota
- Geographic Orientation: Wisconsin
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects De Luca, Sara - Childhood and youth, Polk County (Wis.) - Biography
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 95-42676
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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