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EAN : 9782258196322
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One More Step in the River

Collection : Terres de France
Release date : 19/08/2021
A revised version of La Montagne des bœufs sauvages, a sort of travel log devoted to the author’s native region of the Vosges. A life-affirming blend of childhood memories and descriptions of the local landscapes as they change with the seasons.
Rarely has there been such a striking example of a writer living in such harmony with the region where he was born and that he has never left. A land of secrets, of an economy of words, of shadows, and of ghosts where one has the sense that wild hunters... Rarely has there been such a striking example of a writer living in such harmony with the region where he was born and that he has never left. A land of secrets, of an economy of words, of shadows, and of ghosts where one has the sense that wild hunters are still prowling amid the trees. This is the Vosges of Pierre Pelot, woven from a thousand memories and rustling with a thousand tales: a rugged and tender, tragi-comic place where childhood blends with history. This book is a love song to nature and the people of this singular region where it feels like everyone you encounter has just stepped out of a novel. It is also the expression of a sensibility through the contemplation of a land that is both real and imagined, and it stands as the author’s most intimate work.
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EAN : 9782258196322
Shaping : EPUB3
DRM : DRM Adobe
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