The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics)

The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics)

The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true homeâ€”thousands of miles from its homeland.

Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carlâ€™s most recent success, a play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didnâ€™t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes â€œlike babies.â€ But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her â€œnative land.â€ This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.
Country USA
Brand NYRB Classics
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Brand	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-02
Format	Kindle eBook

The Farm in the Green Mountains (NYRB Classics)

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