The Christmas Plains

The Christmas Plains
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Publisher : Image
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780770437664
ISBN-13 : 0770437664
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Book Synopsis The Christmas Plains by : Joseph Bottum

Download or read book The Christmas Plains written by Joseph Bottum and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-respected writer and editor's 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 Scrooge's 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.


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