Jane F. Carpineto

On the Vineyard : a year in the life of an island

St. Martin's press

New York, 1998
bibliothèque insulaire
   
N.E. of America
On the Vineyard : a year in the life of an island / Jane F. Carpineto. - New York : St. Martin's press, 1998. - XIII-242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN 0-312-15584-0
DESCRIPTION : Even before the Clintons made Martha's Vineyard one of their favorite vacation spots, the island had a firmly established reputation as a special place. In this profile, Carpineto interviews the natives to examine how the island has changed, where it has come from, and where it is going.
KIRKUS REVIEWS, April 15, 1998 : After visiting the island a number of times, Carpineto decided to dig deeper than the tourist surface, to gain a sense of why so many people think of the Vineyard as a special place.
[…]
For two years on and off, she sampled each of the months and each of the towns, beaches, and festivals, and interviewed a slew of residents, both year-rouders and summer people, conservationists and developers, T-shirts sellers and boat builders, long-time citizens and new arrivals.
[…]
Carpineto is smart enough to know the oddities are a spice, and the main ingredients lie elsewhere. A shrewd look at Martha's Vineyard, mercifully celebrity-free and pleasingly idiosyncratic with the quotidian.

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