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Liked It “Rawlings vividly portrays her life at Cross Creek with humor and spirit. She tells of the struggles with her orange orchard, roaming pigs, and farm hands, and the imense rewards of her relations with the people of Cross Creek and the land itself.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Love Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, but have to admit that I have never made it all the way through The Yearling.”
Wendy N wrote this review Sunday, July 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Rawlings vividly portrays her life at Cross Creek with humor and spirit. She tells of the struggles with her orange orchard, roaming pigs, and farm hands, and the imense rewards of her relations with the people of Cross Creek and the land itself.”
David wrote this review Sunday, June 29 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling) moves into a cabin in Cross Creek and tells of her life in this tiny community in central Florida around the 1930's.
jeanne-scott wrote this review Wednesday, January 16 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
She makes the change from life in a big city to a life that is simple and yet demanding, quiet yet open to all and full of new,unimagined challenges and conquests.
She uses language of the time. While it would not be considered politically correct, the language does bring the realities of life in rustic Cross Creek into a clearer more tangible experience, abundantly filled with the feel, the taste, and the scents of life in the backcountry.
Her education in the flora and fauna, her tribulations with hired hands, her understanding of those around her are all so vividly told that you feel as if you could have been there watching it all take place before your very eyes.
The insight into the mind and heart of Marjorie Rawlings was both intimate and detached at times. Sometimes she was a delicate piece of the "machinery" driving this backcountry haven and at other times she seemed to feel as if she were but an observer, an outsider, merely watching from a well placed vantage point. This is an intriguing look into the life, the heart and the soul of this beloved classic author”
“The autobiography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of "The Yearling" set on her Florida farm in the early part of the century. A real insight into rural life in Florida and lives of local crackers.”
Jo D wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Beautiful passages on nature, and man's place within it. Yet, while conveying her closeness to nature, the author does not come across as a sagelike or reclusive personality, being often quite modern and practical. Rawlings' empathy with a variety of people and the delightful humor with which she describes their ways and lives, makes the book quite unputdownable.”
Ranit Tagore wrote this review Friday, August 24 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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