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Curled up by the wood stove in my cabin, I look up to see flakes drift into the August afternoon. In the mountains of Wyoming, snow flurries in late summer are not unusual and most mornings one wakes to a glitter of frost on the long grass. I am reading Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls," which might seem an odd choice for this high mountain ranch. Why not Owen Wister's "The Virginian" or something by Terry Tempest Williams? Because I love to read against place. I do it on purpose.</p> 145<p class="from_wysiwyg"> </p> 146<p class="from_wysiwyg">When I chose to read Howard Frank Mosher in the south of France, the dry Provençal hillsides gave northern Vermont's tangled woods an extra depth. The crisp remembered scents of pine and apple seemed sharper as I breathed in sage and lavender. And every day I could set the busy street life of a French village against the isolation of a Kingdom County hill farm.</p> 147<p class="from_wysiwyg"> </p> 148<p class="from_wysiwyg">Amid the bleat of taxis and the foggy lights of London evenings, I read "Death Comes for the Archbishop." Gray skies and age-worn brick and stone made the red cliffs and cloudless blue sky of Willa Cather's New Mexico stand out with special brilliance. Riding along the canyon's rim with the archbishop, I relished the promised comforts of an old city – a cozy fireside, a pot of tea.</p> 149<p class="from_wysiwyg"> <br />Living in Florence, I read Flannery O'Connor. Surrounded by the opulence of the Renaissance Roman Catholic church – marble bell towers and cupolas, gilded Madonnas – I could see the same faith stripped bare. In the hardscrabble American South, it was neither pretty nor exalted but uncompromising and necessary.</p> 150<p class="from_wysiwyg"> <br />And now Gogol in Wyoming. I follow the hero through a landscape of steppe and birch forest. Although there might be some similarity in the wide-open spaces, this is a world of eccentric landowners, of custom and tradition in which every conversation skirts the shoals of class. I am reading about caste in a place that defiantly ignores it. Easterners went West to escape conventions far less entrenched than those of 19th-century Russia. The West was a land of action, no dawdling about the old estate deciding, or not deciding, what to do next, nominally in control of servants, who were, in turn, busy with their own survival tricks.</p> 151<p class="from_wysiwyg"> </p> 152<p class="from_wysiwyg">The obvious explanation for this predilection, of course, is the effect of contrast, black and white, the dot of red that intensifies green. But I think it owes more to the child's magical wish to be in two places at the same time – the exchange of worlds that drives good fantasy, the door at the back of the wardrobe, two conflicting realities, between which, for a time, one passes easily.<br /> </p> 153</div> 154</div> 155 156 157</div> 158<div class='content-wrap'> 159<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 160 161</div> 162 163 164</div> 165</div> 166</div> 167 168<div class='sb_region small_primary_global'> 169<div class='region-contents'> 170<div class='content-wrap'> 171<div class='content clearfix' data-global-content-container> 172<div class='inner-contents'> 173 174</div> 175</div> 176 177</div> 178</div> 179</div> 180 181<div class='sb_region small_primary_after_global'> 182<div class='region-contents'> 183</div> 184</div> 185 186 187</div> 188</aside> 189<section class='column column-primary'> 190<div class='column-primary__content-wrap'> 191<div class='sb_region sb_region_page_title'> 192<h2> 193Home 194</h2> 195 196</div> 197<div class='sb_region big'> 198<div class='region-contents'> 199<div class='content-wrap'> 200<div class='content clearfix text-block'> 201 202<div class='text-wrapper'> 203<p class="from_wysiwyg">Perdita Buchan was born in England but came to America as a child. She has since lived in America, England and Italy. Her short stories and essays have appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>The Ladies Home Journal</em>, <em>House Beautiful</em>, <em>Fiction Network</em>, <em>The New York Times</em> and <em>The Christian Science Monitor</em> among other publications. She has published two novels and a non fiction work on utopian communities. After many years in New England, she now lives on the New Jersey coast.</p> 204</div> 205</div> 206 207 208</div> 209</div> 210</div> 211 212 213</div> 214</section> 215<aside class='column column-sidebar-02 column-last'> 216<div class='column-sidebar-02__content-wrap'> 217<div class='sb_region small_secondary_before_global'> 218<div class='region-contents'> 219</div> 220</div> 221 222<div class='sb_region small_secondary_global'> 223<div class='region-contents'> 224<div class='content-wrap'> 225<div class='content clearfix'> 226<div class='global_content_header_wrapper'> 227<div class='global_content_inner_wrapper'> 228<h3 class='MediumHeader here'>Selected Works</h3> 229</div> 230</div> 231<!-- / Handled as per https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/125911081/comments/171467607
231- LMS --> 232<div class='category_name_wrapper'> 233<h4>Fiction</h4> 234</div> 235<div class='work-block'> 236<!-- sort order index is 1 --> 237<div class='work-title'> 238<a href="/florilla__a_pinelands_romance_.htm">Florilla: A Pinelands Romance</a> 239<div class='work-image'> 240<image alt='Florilla: A Pinelands Romance' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/51u9esbp2ol--sx332-bo1-204-203-200-.jpg' srcset='/images/51u9esbp2ol--sx332-bo1-204-203-200-.jpg 480w, /images/51u9esbp2ol--sx332-bo1-204-203-200-.jpg 320w'></image> 241</div> 242</div> 243<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg"><em>Florilla</em> is a splendid, intelligent nineteenth-century romance that threads social ideas with botany and a memorable heroine.</p> 244<p class="from_wysiwyg" style="text-align:right;">- Foreword Reviews</p></div> 245</div> 246<div class='work-block'> 247<!-- sort order index is 3 --> 248<div class='work-title'> 249<a href="/the_carousel_carver__.htm">The Carousel Carver </a> 250</div> 251<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg">A story of immigration, of finding a place in a new world, of love lost and found</p></div> 252</div> 253<div class='work-block'> 254<!-- sort order index is 7 --> 255<div class='work-title'> 256<a href="/called_away_.htm">Called Away</a> 257<div class='work-image'> 258<image alt='Called Away' sizes='(min-width: 530px) 33vw, (min-width: 940px) 25vw, 100vw' src='/images/51mAHw2mUsL--SY291-BO1-204-203-200-QL40-ML2-.jpg' srcset='/images/51mAHw2mUsL--SY291-BO1-204-203-200-QL40-ML2-.jpg 480w, /images/51mAHw2mUsL--SY291-BO1-204-203-200-QL40-ML2-.jpg 320w'></image> 259</div> 260</div> 261<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg">A romantic view of "back to the land" is challenged when time travel isolates Clover, the novel's young heroine, in 1816 - Vermont's year without a summer.</p> 262<p class="from_wysiwyg" style="text-align:right;"><em>Â </em></p></div> 263</div> 264 265<div class='category_name_wrapper'> 266<h4>Nonfiction</h4> 267</div> 268<div class='work-block'> 269<!-- sort order index is 5 --> 270<div class='work-title'> 271<a href="/utopia__new_jersey__travels_in_the_nearest_eden_.htm">Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden</a> 272</div> 273<div class='work-description'><p class="from_wysiwyg">A study of eight early 20th century utopian communities in New Jersey</p></div> 274</div> 275 276</div> 277 278</div> 279</div> 280</div> 281 282<div class='sb_region small_secondary_after_global'> 283<div class='region-contents'> 284</div> 285</div> 286 287 288</div> 289</aside> 290</section> 291</div> 292<div class='sbx_wrapper_footer' id='sbx_wrapper_footer'> 293<footer> 294<div class='sb_region sb_site_copyright_region'> 295<div class='sb_copyright_wrapper'> 296<ul class='social'> 297</ul> 298 299</div> 300</div> 301</footer> 302</div> 303<div class='modal modal-public' data-ajax-modal> 304<div class='modal-fade-screen'> 305<div class='modal-wrapper'> 306<div class='modal-inner'> 307<div data-ajax-modal-content></div> 308<div data-ajax-modal-loading> 309Loading…} 310</div> 311</div> 312</div> 313</div> 314</div> 315 316<div class='modal' data-image-modal> 317<div class='modal-fade-screen'> 318<div class='modal-wrapper'> 319<div class='modal-inner'> 320<i class='image-modal-close ss-icon ss-delete'></i> 321<img data-image-modal-content> 322</div> 323</div> 324</div> 325</div> 326
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