7 Ergebnisse.

A town of nine square blocks, surrounded by wheat fields along a railroad line in eastern North Dakota, makes an intense and magical world for Caroline (Line), Margaret (Marty) and Paul, the three middle children of the Lutheran pastor and his wife, the Mikkelsons. The Cold War feels very far away and post-World War II optimism reigns. Nevertheless, Mother and Dad are alarmed by the inroads of popular culture upon their high-minded Scandinavia...

Against a background of civil rights demonstrations, protests of the Vietnam war and the growing sense of the absurd fostered by the counter-culture, the Mikkelsons, Line, Marty and Paul, begin to find their feet. As they move into lives of their own, however, ties with their parents stretch thinner.Line studies nursing in Chicago and lives, on the weekends, with an SDS activist and organizer. Line's pregnancy leaves them uncertain about what ...

Newly independent, Line, Marty and Paul begin to take the world on its own terms. The shifting tectonic plates of the 1970's, however, stirred and shook culture, overturning the old values which supported wealth, class, racial and sexual boundaries. The rising counter-culture demanded maximum freedom, directness of speech, love of simplicity, an affinity for nature and kindness to children.Living his dreams in Alaska, Paul slowly becomes aware...

The Mikkelsons and their kids spread to the four winds in the 1990's, reflecting a newly global culture. Paul returns to teaching in order to help his family, but the Minnesota cabin is decaying and there is little money for upkeep. Marie brightens his life with her singing, though her flame begins to flicker. Marty, now alone, explores the world of the East. The practice of tai chi energizes her. She finds a soul-mate in someone who is alread...

Natural and man-made disasters uproot and claim the lives of millions during the 1980's: famine, earthquakes, cyclones, toxic leaks and a nuclear meltdown in Russia. In the United States, homelessness raises its ugly face and people finally wake up to the devastating plague of AIDS. Stricter lessons are administered to the Mikkelsons as well, their father is "pulled from the race" much earlier than anyone hoped.In California, Line's hospital w...

At 40, her son grown and independent, Janet finds freedom exhilarating and terrifying. Her old friend Carlos, an enigmatic sculptor in Los Angeles, offers her his casual love and protection. But when Janet explains to Ben, a Harvard-educated attorney and naturalist, her plan to leave San Francisco and finish college, Ben blurts out that his wife has left him and taken their small daughter. Janet's choices affect her son Tom, a biology major wh...

Elsa is shocked and miserable when her husband Morgan announces he wants to move to a zendo many miles from the house they recently bought and which she loves. Her passion for weaving doesn't compensate for his loss, but his best friend Jerome, a political activist, tries. Elsa is not immune to Jerome's charms, but she also wants to get to the truth of her own life. Since her childhood on a Midwestern farm, Elsa has moved to a cosmopolitan cit...