The One-Room Schoolhouse: Stories About the Boys (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679747697)

In more than one hundred perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, and always surprising stories, Jim Heynen displays his mastery of country wisdom, speech, and behavior as he reveals life in a Midwest where electricity is a magical novelty and cities a distant rumor. These are tales of farmboys finding their way, contending with grown-ups, city kids, birth, death, bats, rats, skunks, and even mean ponies. Or choosing between corncobs and peach tissues, hurling rotten eggs, getting in trouble, helping out, and trying to conceive of the mountains and oceans and forests they've never seen. Their adventures are an education in the natural world, as well as an aknowledgment of what is both common and strange in human nature. Whether true of just funny, sad or even magical, The One-Room Schoolhouse is indelibly American.

Author: Jim Heynen
ISBN-10: 0679747699
ISBN-13: 9780679747697
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/30/1994
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.68w x 0.65d