Dirt Under My Nails (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marilee Foster
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Environment, essays, and nature
- Time of Work: The early 2000’s
- Setting: Sagaponack, New York
- Principal Characters: Marilee Foster, Dean, Cliff
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Nature writing
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, United States or Americans, Nature, Art or artists, Twenty-first century, Rural or country life, Farms, farmers, or farming, Women, Work or workers, Environment or environmental health, Career women, Industrialization, 2000’s
- Locales: New York
Readers who purchase Dirt Under My Nails expecting to learn about the life of a typical farmwoman in the Midwest will be disappointed and perhaps confused. Marilee Foster is not the typical—or stereotypical—farmer. A graduate of Beloit College in Wisconsin, she is a writer and artist as well as a farmer; the land she works is not in the Midwest, but in the ultratrendy Hamptons of Long Island, one hundred miles east of New York City. Her slight book—much of which first appeared in Foster’s weekly column for the Southampton Press—comprises a series of light,...
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