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1993 Book Still Holds True about Small-Town, Rural Life on Great Plains.

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Date: 19991024
Author:Holste, Glenda

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 24 -- "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography" by Kathleen Norris. Houghton Mifflin, 1996. $13.

As autumn surrenders to the first hints of impending winter in the Upper Midwest, the Harvest of Risk Book Club will conclude its current series with "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography."

Kathleen Norris' essays about the complexities of finding oneself and things larger in the land of the Great Plains was published first in 1993. The book elaborates on how Norris saw the farm crisis of the 1980s putting pressure on small town and rural life.

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