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My grandfather's book : generations of an American family / Gary Gildner.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.I343 Z468 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gildner, Gary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gildner, Gary--Family.
- Gildner, Gary.
- Gildner, Gary--Childhood and youth.
- Authors, American--20th century--Family relationships.
- Authors, American.
- Families.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Grandparent and child--United States.
- Grandparent and child.
- United States.
- Polish Americans--Biography.
- Polish Americans.
- Families--United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- On Gary Gildner's eleventh birthday, his Polish grandfather Steve Szostak was buried. Just before the undertaker closed the coffin, Gildner's grandmother Nelly quietly placed the book she'd found her husband holding at his death in the casket. "Always this Korzeniowski -- even on his last day -- and why?" Nelly asked her grandson almost two decades later. It was in this moment -- discovering his grandfather's devotion to Joseph Conrad -- that Gildner realized the man he had followed around on a northern Michigan farm was someone considerably more. Inspired by Szostak's love of Conrad, Gildner embarked on a journey of self-discovery that took him from the Tatra Mountains in Eastern Europe to the Clearwater Mountains in Idaho, finding where the truth begins in his own life.
- Contents:
- An introduction to the trail
- Keys
- Alphabets and maps
- Documents
- Expression
- A kind of fable
- Recalling the last day
- Where to?
- Bringing home the baby
- Early spring : the cougar
- In the presence of the Clearwater
- Beginning my education
- Just a boy
- A song
- Where am I?
- Work hard and die
- A snapshot
- The river
- Hail Columbia
- The old country and the new
- Great odds
- A flock of small birds
- A stupendous grave
- At least one pure disappearing act
- Covering ground.
- ISBN:
- 0870136399
- OCLC:
- 49530229
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