Prairie Fires - by Caroline Fraser (Hardcover)
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<p>"An absorbing new biography [that] deserves recognition as an essential text.... For anyone who has drifted into thinking of Wilder's 'Little House' books as relics of a distant and irrelevant past, reading <i>Prairie Fires</i> will provide a lasting cure.... Meanwhile, 'Little House' devotees will appreciate the extraordinary care and energy Fraser brings to uncovering the details of a life that has been expertly veiled by myth."<br><b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> </b>(front page) <p/>"Fraser's meticulous biography has particular urgency today, as she unknots the threads of fact and fiction, of reality and myth, of mother and daughter.... <i>Prairie Fires</i> is not only a work of rigorous scholarship, but it also portrays Wilder, and her daughter Rose, in ways that illuminate our society's current crises and rifts."<br><i><b>--The New York Review of Books</b></i> <p/>"Important and meticulous biography... Complex and astonishing... A subtle, intelligent and quietly explosive study."<br><i><b>--Financial Times</b></i> <p/>"The definitive biography... Magisterial and eloquent... A rich, provocative portrait."<br><b><i>--Minneapolis Star Tribune<br></i></b><br>"Magnificent... A remarkable, noteworthy biography of an American literary icon. It will captivate Little House fans as well as anyone looking to understand 'the perpetual hard winter' of life in frontier times."<br><i><b>--USA Today</b></i> <p/>"Impressive... <i>Prairie Fires</i> could not have been published at a more propitious time in our national life."<br><b>--<i>The New Republic</i></b> <p/>"Unforgettable... A magisterial biography, which surely must be called definitive. Richly documented (it contains 85 pages of notes), it is a compelling, beautifully written story.... One of the more interesting aspects of this wonderfully insightful book is its delineation of the fraught relationship between Wilder and her deeply disturbed, often suicidal daughter."<br><b><i>--Booklist</i> </b>(starred review) <p/>"A fantastic book. We've long understood the Little House series to be a great American story, but Caroline Fraser brings it unprecedented new context, as she masterfully chronicles the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family alongside the complicated history of our nation. <i>Prairie Fires</i> represents a significant milestone in our understanding of Wilder's life, work, and legacy."<br><b>--Wendy McClure, </b> author of <i>The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of</i> Little House on the Prairie <p/>"Meticulously researched, feelingly told, <i>Prairie Fires</i> is the definitive biography of a major writer who did so much to mold public perceptions of the Western frontier. Once again, Caroline Fraser has shown that she is a master of the careful art of sifting a life, finding meaning in the large and small events that shaped an iconic American figure. <i>Prairie Fires</i> is a magnificent contribution to the literature of the West."<br><b>--Hampton Sides, </b> author of <i>Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West</i> <p/>"At last, an unsentimental examination of Laura Ingalls Wilder's real life on the frontier. Caroline Fraser rescues Wilder from frontier myth and gives us the gritty, passionate woman who endured the harshest experiences of homesteading, loved the Great Plains, and was devastated by their ultimate ruin and loss. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, <i>Prairie Fires</i> is a major contribution to environmental history and literary biography."<br><b>--Linda Lear, </b> author of <i>Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature</i> and <i>Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature</i> <p/>"In the twenty-first century, the tense and secret authorial partnership between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane has emerged as the most complex and fascinating psychological saga of mother-daughter collaboration in American literary history. Caroline Fraser's deeply researched and stimulating biography analyzes their controversial relationship and places Wilder's influential fiction in the contexts of other myths of pioneer women and the frontier."<br><b>--Elaine Showalter, </b> author of <i>A Jury of Her Peers</i> and <i>The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe <p/></i>"Engrossing... Exhilarating... Lovers of the series will delight in learning about real-life counterparts to classic fictional episodes, but, as Fraser emphasizes, the true story was often much harsher. Meticulously tracing the Ingalls and Wilder families' experiences through public records and private documents, Fraser discovers failed farm ventures and constant money problems, as well as natural disasters even more terrifying and devastating in real life than in Wilder's writing. She also helpfully puts Wilder's narrow world into larger historical context."<br><b>--<i>Publishers Weekly<br></i></b></p>
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