Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children\'s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising HollyWood success in the early twentieth century.
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The Field House is a book about beauty--beauty in Maine Island landscapes, in friendship, love, and heartbreak; beauty hidden beneath a woman\'s woefully unbeautiful exterior; beauty in a rare, delightful spirit that still whispers from the past.
She was determined to answer the questions that filled the house\'s every crevice: Who was this vibrant, talented artist whose very name entrances those who still remember her work? Why is that work--so richly remunerated and widely celebrated in her lifetime--so largely forgotten today? The journey into Rachel\'s world took Wood further than she ever dreamed possible, unveiling a Life fraught with challenge, and buried by tragedy, and yet incandescent with joy.
Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel\'s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an Island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel\'s history.
Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim.
Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children\'s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising HollyWood success in the early twentieth century
