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Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin (American Women Writers)
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Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin (American Women Writers) Hardcover - 1987

by Mary Hunter Austin


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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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  • Title Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin (American Women Writers)
  • Author Mary Hunter Austin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Date 1987-04
  • ISBN 9780813512174

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About the Author
Austin came to California in 1887 to homestead with her family in Kern County, in the Great Central Valley. She is the author of many novels, essays, and story collections.
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