The Past Leads a Life of Its Own

The Past Leads a Life of Its Own

Author: Wayne Fields

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226248585

Category: Fiction

Page: 270

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The Past Leads a Life of Its Own is a compelling collection of stories centered around one boy's childhood in the rural midwest in the 1950s, his love of nature, his family, and their often nomadic existence. "Going through these pages quickly would be like chug-a-lugging a jar of honey fresh from the comb, or wolfing down a slow-cured, hickory-smoked country ham. It is a rich and complexly flavored work of fiction, a book to be savored."--Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Set against the rhythms of nature, Fields's 16 luminous, interrelated stories celebrate a boy's coming-of-age. . . . The beauty of these deeply felt stories lies in their spare, ear-perfect language and in quiet epiphanies."--Publishers Weekly "[A] beautifully subtle work. . . . Here are a series of vignettes, each capturing some moment in nature, poetic and ethereal. . . . [They] are like stones skipping on water, capturing the struggles of a family leaving one way of life behind for another, Fields remembers the feeling of a time and a place gone forever."--Library Journal
The Past Leads a Life of Its Own
Language: en
Pages: 270

The Past Leads a Life of Its Own

Authors: Wayne Fields
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

The Past Leads a Life of Its Own is a compelling collection of stories centered around one boy's childhood in the rural midwest in the 1950s, his love of nature, his family, and their often nomadic existence. "Going through these pages quickly would be like chug-a-lugging a jar of honey
The Writer and Religion
Language: en
Pages: 157

The Writer and Religion

Authors: William H. Gass, Lorin Cuoco, William Gaddis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: SIU Press

“Every significant religious system stands upon a sacred text. This text is indeed its temple. Inside, its heroes and their history are enshrined. Although leaders of varying degrees of divinity are always involved in the creation of a new sect, they usually have short lives, often come to bad ends,
The Best of Jackson Payne
Language: en
Pages: 321

The Best of Jackson Payne

Authors: Jack Fuller
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Follows Charles Quinlan, a white musicologist, as he researches a biography of the enigmatic black saxophone player Jackson Payne. It is a story of obsession--Payne's to create himself anew through his horn and Quinlan's to grasp the source of Payne's genius.
Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry
Language: en
Pages: 256

Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry

Authors: Thomas McMahon
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

What was life like for the scientists working at Los Alamos? Thomas McMahon imagines this life through the wide eyes of young Tim MacLaurin, the thirteen-year-old son of an MIT physicist who, inspired by a young woman named Maryann, worked on the project. Filled with the sensuous excitement of scientific
A Man in Charge
Language: en
Pages: 364

A Man in Charge

Authors: Morris Philipson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

An old-fashioned man of character, Conrad Taylor is executive vice-president of a eastern university who, after leading a satisfying and well-ordered life, finds himself suddenly on shaky ground, struggling to do the right thing in the face of crisis, confrontation, and opportunity. A Man in Charge is an intricate novel