Description
Book SynopsisWeaving a tapestry of lives and landscapes, past and present, earth and water, Norbert Blei celebrates the unique heritage of Door County, Wisconsin, a spectacular peninsula reaching into Lake Michigan.
Trade ReviewSomeday [Blei’s] Door County will join the great mythical-real landscapes that include Salinas, Spoon River, and Yoknapatawpha.”Harry Mark Petrakis
|Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heard and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.”Sydney J. Harris
|Blei’s friends and neighbors have not escaped the world; they are very much a part of it, involved in the vital issues of our times.”
Publishers Weekly|Blei has a fine ear and a genuine, searching, feeling humanity.”
Chicago Tribune|A fascinating assemblage of profiles that adds up to a vivid, feeling portrait of a region.”Studs Terkel
|“Blei’s finely wrought story of a Door County car salesman . . . is just one of the
Door Way stories that put Blei in the ranks of Faulkner et alia.”—
River Falls Journal
