{"product_id":"the-farm-in-the-green-mountains-paperback","title":"The Farm in the Green Mountains - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Herdan-Zuckmayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElisa Albert\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eIda H. Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over, and Carl's most recent success--a play satirizing German militarism--impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn't suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes \"like babies.\" But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her \"native land.\" This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Herdan-Zuckmayer\u003c\/b\u003e (1901-1991) was born Alice Henriette Alberta Herdan-Harris von Valbonne und Belmont in Vienna shortly after her parents' divorce. As a girl, she was a pupil of the radical education reformist Eugenie Schwarzwald and Alice met her first husband, the psychologist and future anti-Nazi leader Karl Frank, through Schwarzwald. Her marriage to Frank was short lived and Alice, now living in Berlin with their daughter Michaela, supported herself by acting and with secretarial work, though she hoped to become a doctor. She met the writer Carl Zuckmayer at a party of actors and artists, and the two married in 1925, the same year Zuckmayer was awarded the Kleist Prize for his play \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Vineyard\u003c\/i\u003e. The next year she gave birth to a second daughter, Maria Winnetou. By 1933 Zuckmayer's works had been banned and the family moved, first to Austria, and then, in 1938, to Switzerland. They emigrated to the United States with the help of the journalist Dorothy Thompson in 1939. After the success of \u003ci\u003eThe Farm in the Green Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e, Herdan-Zuckmayer published two more memoirs, \u003ci\u003eDas Kästchen\u003c\/i\u003e (The Box), about her childhood, and \u003ci\u003eDas Scheusal\u003c\/i\u003e (The Monster), about a dog. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eElisa Albert\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAfter Birth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dahlia\u003c\/i\u003e; a short-story collection, \u003ci\u003eHow This Night is Different\u003c\/i\u003e; and the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eFreud's Blind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and on NPR. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIda H. Washington\u003c\/b\u003e taught German literature for many years and, along with her husband, Larry Washington, helped found the German-language program at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDorothy Canfield Fisher: A Biography \u003c\/i\u003eand collaborated with her daughter Carol E. Washington on the translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Farm in the Green Mountains.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770376093984,"sku":"9781681370743","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a11ca8c86d82b7265c6a59409c1c5c37.webp?v=1780370440","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-farm-in-the-green-mountains-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}