This summer Sam Pickering and his wife Vicki attended a pro-fessional wrestling match in a small arena in Nova Scotia. They sat in folding chairs on the front row. They ate Montreal Sausages drowning in ketchup and awash with onions. They cheered her...Loe edasi...
Familiar essays by Sam Pickering, who has written more than thirty books and barrows of articles. When not at his desk, he was in the classroom, the last thirty-five years teaching English at the University of Connecticut....Loe edasi...
Being Home is a collection of personal essays about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory and emotions. It is different for everyone; it is different for members of the same family, and it most likely has nothing to do with where you were born...Loe edasi...
"e;Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickerings essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. "e;Life doesnt have a neat beginning and a tidy end,"e; Roger, a character in V. S. Naipauls Half a Life, says. "e;Life is always going on...Loe edasi...
He roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind and thought. He explores shorelines and climbs "e;hillish"e; mountains. He sits on porches and talks to passersby and their dogs. He meets stran...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2012, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781611171198)
Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering-the inspiration for the main cha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2012, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781611171198)
Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering-the inspiration for the main cha...Loe edasi...
