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Title: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray ISBN: 1-57131-247-1 Publisher: Milkweed Editions Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.61 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Into the Woods, Out of the Junkyard
Comment: I originally read Janisse Ray's memoirs and essay collection, "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood", for a class in college. To be honest, I hated it at first and told two of my classmates that if Janisse was so conscious of the environment, then why had the trees died to print this book. I ate those words before I was half way through. Janisse Ray has an immaculate voice and breathtaking experiences to share with us about her childhood, spent living with her family in a junkyard.
The book alternates each chapter between memoirs and essays on the natural forests of Georgia. My preference was on Ray's childhood - where she describes in rich detail about the family bonds that arise out of poverty. There is a certain mystical fantasy about her childhood playgrounds, as she talks about being in a family with money prolbems and numerous mouths to feed. Ray exposes the dark sides of her father's religious fanaticism and mental instability. These stories are honest and refrain from sentimentality. Ray tells talks about her life with simple facts and observations. We experience with her a full view of her introducing a college boyfriend to the wreckage that has been transformed into a home.
"Ecology of a Crack Childhood" is a powerful read that everyone should have the opportunity to experience. I, myself, have spent most of my life growing up in cities, but at least now I have a taste of what the rural world has to offer.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Felt Like a Child Again
Comment: The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood By Janisse Ray
"The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" is a delightful book, beautifully written and filled with wisdom. Janisse Ray made me feel like a child again. What it is like to have a soul of a poet and live in a junkyard in rural Georgia with a family of fundamentalists. Her love for South Georgia's vanishing natural beauty and history is infectious. She beautifully illustrates, through the story of the long leaf pine, that in saving our ecosystem we save ourselves.
Rating: 5
Summary: The landscape of our heritage
Comment: Janisse Ray has written a wildly interesting tale of her upbringing in rural Georgia. But probably the more vital part of this book is its backdrop: the disappearing long-leaf pine forests of South Georgia. Does America really need another tale of its eroding ecology? Absolutely. The remnants of once-great natural wonders do not stand a chance of survival in the modern age of mass consumption unless its story is told, again and again, and we can only be so lucky if someone with the wit and wisdom of Ms. Ray tells it.
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Title: Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home by Janisse Ray ISBN: 1571312722 Publisher: Milkweed Editions Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Praying for Sheetrock : A Work of Nonfiction by Melissa Fay Greene ISBN: 0449907538 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses by Charles Seabrook ISBN: 0895872676 Publisher: John F Blair Pub Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Wickerby : An Urban Pastoral by Charles Siebert ISBN: 0609802682 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels by Charles D. Spornick, Alan R. Cattier, Robert J. Greene ISBN: 0820324388 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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