Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine by Ureneck, Lou

Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine

Inspired by his From the Ground Up blog for the New York Times, a beautifully written memoir...
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Author: Lou Ureneck
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Language: English
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Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine by Ureneck, Lou

Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine

$39.97

Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine

$39.97
Author: Lou Ureneck
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Inspired by his From the Ground Up blog for the New York Times, a beautifully written memoir about building and brotherhood

Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age--job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce--Lou Ureneck needed a project that would engage the better part of him and put him back in life's good graces. City-bound for a decade, Lou decided he needed to build a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods. He bought five acres in the hills of western Maine and asked his younger brother, Paul, to help him.

Twenty years earlier the brothers had built a house together. Now Lou saw working with Paul as a way to reconnect with their shared history and to rediscover his truest self. As the brothers--with the help of Paul's sons--undertake the challenging construction, nothing seems to go according to plan. But as they raise the cabin, Ureneck eloquently reveals his own evolving insights into the richness and complexity of family relationships, the healing power of nature, and the need to root oneself in a place one can call home. With its exploration of the satisfaction of building and of physical labor, Cabin will also appeal to readers of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft, and Tracy Kidder's House.



Author: Lou Ureneck
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 11/27/2012
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143122081
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Lou Ureneck is a journalism professor at Boston University and a former newspaper editor at the Portland Press Herald in Maine and the Philadelphia Inquirer. His first book, Backcast: Fatherhood, Fly-fishing, and a River Journey Through the Heart of Alaska, received the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award. He lives in Boston and near Bethel, Maine.

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