{"product_id":"looking-for-the-klondike-stone-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Looking for the Klondike Stone: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Arthur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSteven Bauer\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA CLASSIC AMERICAN MEMOIR THAT CAPTURES A TIME, A PLACE, A LIFE IN WHICH WE ALL CAN FIND OURSELVES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA luminous memoir of five summers at a Vermont camp that became a child's whole world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"Prose of unfailing dazzle and profound specificity...enchanted...electrifying as touch, warming as sun, and refining as poetry\" Donna Seaman, \u003cem\u003e Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Stunningly good...[If you prefer to read a novel] that novel had better be by someone such as...Jane Austen if it's to give you more pleasure than\u003cem\u003e Looking for the Klondike Stone.\u003c\/em\u003e [Arthur has] a memory easily equal to Proust's or Wordsworth's...\" Noel Perrin, \u003cem\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Enchanting\" \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Camp Wynakee lay in a hollow of the hills.\" So begins Elizabeth Arthur's incandescent memoir of five perfect summers in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont - a paean to youth, to summer, and to enchanted places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Elizabeth is in her fourth year as a camper when we first meet her, arriving at Wynakee in the back of her stepfather's Jeep, \"dressed in new shorts, a new shirt, new sneakers and a new cap, like any pilgrim ready to be reborn.\" Possessed of a child's remarkable ability to endow the events of her days with symbolic significance, she is poised to make the most of every moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With Elizabeth, we enter a world where the comforting daily routine begins with \"the chimes of a great brass bell ringing and ringing in waves of deep sound across the meadows and the woods.\" On Klondike Day, gold-painted rocks, hundreds of them, are scattered through the hills for the campers to seek and find; one stone - and only one - is the Klondike Stone, the true treasure, whose finder, chosen by fate itself, is \"cleansed, remade, newly wrought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To Elizabeth, it is the emblem of the miracle of Wynakee, where a child who has known since her parents' divorce that \"things you love can vanish\" might experience during a few brief seasons a measure of happiness that will nourish her for a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hailed upon its original publication as an American classic, Looking for the Klondike Stone was universally praised. Light of touch, written in a style of great lyric generosity, this is a book to remind us of the joyful seriousness and awe-filled intensity of childhood. In Looking for the Klondike Stone it will be forever summer in Vermont, where the pervasive magic of a place called Wynakee is elevated to the status of myth by an extraordinary child on a quest to discover the meaning of the world. It is destined for the small shelf of classic American memoirs that capture a time, a place, a life in which we all can find ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With a Foreword by Elizabeth Arthur's husband, Steven Bauer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53376911737139,"sku":"9781969498299","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/V3hkT0T8pp9781969498299.webp?v=1779310490","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/looking-for-the-klondike-stone-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}