The Life She Wished to Live Review: The Bard of Cross Creek – WSJ

More than 80 years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings s 1938 novel, The Yearling, still conveys profound truths about the human experience. Set in the wilds of inland Florida, The Yearling follows a tow-headed boy as he grows from a Rousseauian child of nature into a young man who understands the sacrifices nature will require of him. His father commiserates. You ve seed how things go in the world o men. . . . Ever man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but taint easy. Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin. I ve been uneasy all my life.

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That sounds about right. Maybe I should read The Yearling. Maybe I could get my youngest to read it if I could only pry the phone from his hands.