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This life is in your hands one dream, sixty acres, and a family's heartbreak

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 15/06/2012
Place of Publication: United States

RRP: $19.99
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"Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history." --Tom Perrotta. In a work of power and beauty reminiscent of Tobias Wolff, Jeannette Walls, and Dave Eggers, Melissa Coleman delivers a luminous, evocative childhood memoir exploring the hope and struggle behind her family's search for a sustainable lifestyle. With echoes of "The Liars' Club "and "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," Coleman's searing chronicle tells the true story of her upbringing on communes and sustainable farms along the rugged Maine coastline in the 1970's, embedded within a moving, personal quest for truth that her experiences produced.

"Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is In Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our recent history."--Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher

Title: This life is in your hands
Subtitle: one dream, sixty acres, and a family's heartbreak
Contributors: By (author) Melissa Coleman

ISBN 13: 9780061958335
ISBN 10: 0061958336

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 15/06/2012
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography
NBS Classification: Autobiography: General
Dewey Classification: 974.13043092 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Height: 203mm
Width: 135mm
Thickness: 20mm
Weight: 503g