Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.
From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780446517980 (0446517984)
ASIN: 446517984
Publish date: April 12th 1994
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
A couple of the essays--"A Canticle for Roadcat" and "romance" in particular--are truly transcendent, and there are real moments of mirth as well, but all in all the obviousness that most of these began life as newspaper columns is clear. And, well, newspaper writing is not my preferred style. Too s...
I liked some of these essays very much. My favorite was "Jump Shots."
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