Ebook: The Farm in the Green Mountains
Author: Herdan-Zuckmayer Alice, Zuckmayer Carl
- Tags: Authors Austrian, Authors Austrian--20th century, Authors German, Authors German--20th century, Exile (Punishment), Travel, Biography, Herdan-Zuckmayer Alice -- Exile -- Vermont, Zuckmayer Carl -- 1896-1977 -- Exile -- Vermont, Herdan-Zuckmayer Alice, Zuckmayer Carl -- 1896-1977, Authors Austrian -- 20th century, Authors German -- 20th century, Vermont -- Description and travel, Vermont
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- City: New York;Vermont
- Language: English
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A charming return-to-the-land memoir of a family finding a new home—halfway across the world.
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. After Carl's work fell afoul of the Nazis, however, the couple and their two daughters were forced to flee Europe. Los Angeles didn't suit them and neither did New York, but then a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm, the eighteenth-century house where they would live for the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves joyfully building chicken coops and refereeing fights between unruly ducks. Despite the endless work a new farm required and brutal winters that triggered bouts of melancholy, Alice discovered that in America she had found her "native land." And her...
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. After Carl's work fell afoul of the Nazis, however, the couple and their two daughters were forced to flee Europe. Los Angeles didn't suit them and neither did New York, but then a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm, the eighteenth-century house where they would live for the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves joyfully building chicken coops and refereeing fights between unruly ducks. Despite the endless work a new farm required and brutal winters that triggered bouts of melancholy, Alice discovered that in America she had found her "native land." And her...
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