{"product_id":"looking-for-the-klondike-stone-elizabeth-arthur-9781969498299","title":"Looking for the Klondike Stone: A Memoir","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Arthur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1969498293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781969498299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hollow Tree Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.68d","brand":"Elizabeth Arthur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520304328959,"sku":"9781969498299","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce3d4809-28e1-4a9d-84ed-e3565efcd3b6.jpg?v=1778741956","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/looking-for-the-klondike-stone-elizabeth-arthur-9781969498299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}