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The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780870206726)
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x"I've never believed that living in one place means being one thing all the time, condemned like Minnie Pearl to wear the same hat for every performance. Life is more complicated than that."
In this remarkable book of days, John Hildebrand charts the overlapping rings--home, town, countryside--of life in the Midwest. Like E. B. White, Hildebrand locates the humor and drama in ordinary life: church suppers, Friday night football, outdoor weddings, garden compost, family reunions, roadside memorials, camouflage clothing. In these wry, sharply observed essays, the Midwest isn't The Land Time Forgot but a more complicated (and vastly more interesting) place where the good life awaits once we figure exactly out what it means. From his home range in northwestern Wisconsin, Hildebrand attempts to do just that by boiling down a calendar year to its rich marrow of weather, animals, family, home--in other words, all the things that matter.
Author: John Hildebrand
ISBN-10: 0870206729
ISBN-13: 9780870206726
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2014
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d
In this remarkable book of days, John Hildebrand charts the overlapping rings--home, town, countryside--of life in the Midwest. Like E. B. White, Hildebrand locates the humor and drama in ordinary life: church suppers, Friday night football, outdoor weddings, garden compost, family reunions, roadside memorials, camouflage clothing. In these wry, sharply observed essays, the Midwest isn't The Land Time Forgot but a more complicated (and vastly more interesting) place where the good life awaits once we figure exactly out what it means. From his home range in northwestern Wisconsin, Hildebrand attempts to do just that by boiling down a calendar year to its rich marrow of weather, animals, family, home--in other words, all the things that matter.
Author: John Hildebrand
ISBN-10: 0870206729
ISBN-13: 9780870206726
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2014
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.90d
By John Hildebrand
xJohn Hildebrand is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon, Mapping the Farm: A Family Chronicle, and A Northern Front: New & Selected Essays, and his articles and essays have appeared in Harper's magazine, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Outside, The Best American Sports Writing--1999, and The Missouri Review. He has been awarded a Minnesota Book Award, Banta Award from the Wisconsin Library Association, Bush Fellowship, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, and a Friends of American Libraries Award.
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