Christmas Plains

English

ISBN: 0770437656

EAN: 9780770437657

Category: Religion / Holidays / Christmas & Advent/Biography & Autobiography / General/

Publisher: Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The

Release Date: 10/23/2012

Synopsis: A well-respected writer and editors memoir of childhood Christmases set in the sometimes harsh but always captivating landscape of South Dakota. Wreaths and holly, fruitcakes and mistletoe, ornaments and snowflakes, St. Nick and Scrooges humbug, Joseph and Mary, a young child in a manger and magi from the East. These words automatically stir up the season of Christmas and invoke memories of family and friends and hope and faith. By turns sweet and comic, sentimental and serious, the former editor of First Things magazine shares his reflections of the mad joys and wild emotions of the season while growing up on the South Dakota plains.

Christmas Plains

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.89 inches

Width: 5.21 inches

Length: 7.86 inches

Weight: 10.02 oz

Pages: 224