Indian summer : musings on the gift of life / Sam Pickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickering, Sam, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays.

English essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Indian Summer is the newest collection of personal essays by Sam Pickering. In typical Pickering fashion, he seeks to capture the gift of living. He brings to the page again his family, students, and a wealth of country characters who live in places that exist only in his imagination and who wander through the stories he tells." "He describes how his life has been altered by his children leaving home for college, and he ponders the changes aging brings and the things that never change. The consummate teacher, he celebrates academic life and the pleasures of the classroom. Readers will roam familiar ground with Pickering as he explores the fields and small hills of eastern Connecticut and the bogs and woods on his farm in Nova Scotia."--Jacket

Contents:

Early April

Alone

Maintenance

June

In the good summertime

Changing

Wrong number

What?

Toolless

Writers' colony

Dog days

A brown bird sang in the apple tree

Lasting

Raking

Absurd

Time for Black & Decker

End papers.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8262-6481-6

OCLC:

70747459