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Retrieving Times

Autor Granville Austin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2008
When penned by authors of passion and grace, memoirs lift their readers from the confines of their own lives into pasts made vivid through significant detail and memorable characters. Retrieving Times is such a memoir. Author Granville Austin was only five years old when his family moved to a small town called Norwich on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River in 1927. Back then, this vibrant community boasted more dirt roads than asphalt, and more farmers than professors from nearby Dartmouth College. In summer, there was haying and fishing, band concerts on the common and cool lemon Cokes at the local drugstore. Fall meant hunting while winter meant downhill skiing at a time when getting to the top of a hill meant hiking, not ski lifts. But Austin s time travels to the Norwich, Vermont of his youth are far more than pleasant excursions. They re emotional evocations of the men, women, and boyhood friends who populated the author s world, the people who larned him to use the author s phrase the meaning of honor, of fairness, and of the devotion necessary to turn a small collection of houses and stores into a community with a powerful pulse of its own. At a time when Americans exhibit a distinct yearning for more straightforward and honest relationships with one another, Austin s portrait of Norwich, Vermont told in distinctive, well-seasoned prose reminds us of the lasting impacts our lives have on one another s. So follow Granville Austin s beckoning hand back in time to meet Will Bond, the author s neighbor and the subject of a painting by artist Paul Sample. Learn how to ski downhill when grooming the slope meant tamping down the snow yourself. And decide how you would answer the challenge let s see you shoot. Visiting Vermont is always a treat but with a writer like Granville Austin as your guide, you ll find it as satisfying as biting into a new-picked apple on a clear October day.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781935052043
ISBN-10: 1935052047
Pagini: 209
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: White River Press

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At a time when Americans exhibit a distinct yearning for more straightforward and honest relationships with one another, Austin's portrait of Norwich, Vermont is a reminder of the lasting impacts people's lives have on one another.