Maine: Life in a Day [Hardcover]

50 photographers capture the extraordinary moments in the lives of ordinary MainersWhat better way to celebrate fifty years of book publishing than to celebrate everyday life in Maine. Gathering the work of fifty photographers from all over the state, the book presents the day to day lives of ordinary Mainers.What better way to celebrate 50 years of book publishing than to celebrate everyday life in Maine. Gathering the work of 50 photographers from all over the state, the book captures the day to day lives of ordinary Mainers. Primarily a book about people, these images are arranged to follow the course of a day, starting with morning routines, passing through the events of the day, and closing at nightIt's a stunning tribute to the extraordinary that can be found in the ordinary. Together these images compose a moving portrait of a small place at a small moment in time.Susan Conley, a native Mainer, is the author of The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011), an OprahMagazine Top Ten pick and winner of the Maine Literary Award for Memoir, and the novel Paris Wasthe Place, a People Magazine Top Pick, Elle Magazine Readers Prize selection and Amazon BigBooks for Fall selection. Her books have been excerpted in The New York Times Magazine and the Daily Beast. She is the co-founder of The Telling Room, a creative writing lab in Portland, Maine, teachingthousands of kids a year (and featured this month in the Boston Globe). She has had pieces in Down EastMagazine and is also a TED speaker, a frequent guest on Maines NPR subsidiary MPBN, and thePortland Press Heralds awardee for Greatest Women in Maine.