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Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Pryse, Marjorie

Paperback

Series: American Women Writers

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0813512182
ISBN13: 9780813512181
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Apr 1 1987
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story as another character, as the instigator of plot, and that the story must reflect the essential qualities of the land.

In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is geologically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them, usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert, which she personifies as a woman.

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