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Surviving the Island of Grace: A Memoir of Alaska
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Surviving the Island of Grace: A Memoir of Alaska Hardback - 2002

by Leslie Leyland Fields

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Reminiscent of the best of Matthiessen, Dillard, and Erlich, Leslie Leyland Fields's Alaskan memoir is an inspiring narrative of life in the wild.
"Surviving the Island of Grace" is a beautiful and haunting memoir of a woman who left the East Coast and moved to Alaska looking for a new life. In brilliant prose, Leslie Fields tells her story of adapting to life on a wilderness island without running water, telephones, or other 20th century conveniences. Here, as a 20-year-old newlywed, she is immersed into the world of commercial salmon fishing. With an unflinching gaze, she explores the extremes that define her new life: the beauty and brutality of commercial fishing, the startling land and seascape around her, the isolation, the physical labor, the intensity of communal island life. Among these extremes, she must find her way from a young woman to wife, commercial fisherwoman, and mother. She explores as well, perhaps most eloquently of all, her unique New Hampshire childhood and its role in preparing her for her life in the bush.
With its dramatic Alaskan setting and moving narrative, "Surviving the Island of Grace" is a poetic and powerful book.

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  • Title Surviving the Island of Grace: A Memoir of Alaska
  • Author Leslie Leyland Fields
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thomas Dunne Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312291402 / 031229140X
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.85 x 1.15 in (21.84 x 14.86 x 2.92 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Women fishers - Alaska, Salmon fisheries - Alaska
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002069273
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Leslie Leyland Fields lives on Kodiak Island, Alaska, where she divides her time between teaching and commercial fishing. Winters she teaches English at Kodiak College and runs The Northern Pen, a professional writing business; summers, she moves out to her remote fishcamp island where she has worked with her family in commercial salmon fishing since 1978. Her five children, ranging in age from fourteen years to one, increase the island's population to seven. Much of her writing is done here in a little cabin on a dock over the Pacific Ocean.
Fields has written three other books: "Out on the Deep Blue" (St. Martin's Press, 2001), "The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives" (University of Illinois Press, 1997), and "The Water Under the Fish "(Trout Creek Press, 1995). Her essays have appeared in "The Atlantic, Orion, The Christian Science Monitor, Experiencing Nature, " and others. She can be reached at northernpen@alaska.com.
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