| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9781582433738 | | Publisher: Counterpoint Press | | Publish Date: 3/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 204201792 | | Item#: RRJQDG | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 6L x 1T |
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| | | Larry Woiwode''s literary fame began with his first novel, the 1969 classic "What I''m Going to Do, I Think," and continued unabated through his brilliant 2000 memoir "What I Think I Did." In this deeply affecting follow-up to the latter, Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. With vibrant wordcraft and a poetic sensibility, Woiwode begins his story by relating a near-death experience with a malfunctioning hay baler -- the kind of mistake that can kill a novice farmer. This episode is the first skein in a rich tapestry of memories, from colorful snippets of Woiwode''s time in New York as a young writer working with the late, great William Maxwell, to his days as a young father, husband, and teacher trying to scrape enough together to buy a ranch in western North Dakota, and finally to the prospect of an empty nest and the step from death that he finds rapidly approaching.
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Novelist Larry Woiwode, after a close brush with death, has written a memoir dedicated to his son, providing him with advice, anecdotes, and insight from a life that began on a North Dakota farm and traveled to the gossip and glitter of New York City.
| Praise| "[A] powerfully written, cantankerous, slightly long-winded, and wholly original." - Jennifer Reese 03/21/2008 "Woiwode's subject matter and thematic issues have not changed substantially from his earliest work. Neither has his fundamental stylistic approach. But he continues to deepen his penetration into what it means to be human and finite, to inhabit a body and yearn for connection beyond its physical, temporal limits." - Floyd Skloot 03/30/2008 |
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