Population: 485- Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (P.S.)
by:
Michael Perry (author)
Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads...
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Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, Population: 485 is a comic and sometimes heartbreaking true tale leavened with quieter meditations on an overlooked America.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061363504 (0061363502)
ASIN: 0061363502
Publish date: 2007-07-31
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 234
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Book Club,
Adult,
Medical,
Biography Memoir
A bit overwritten and I didn't enjoy the fragmented writing style---kind of felt like he had so little to say on each subject or remembered so little about each event that he had to use many together to make a chapter, jumping from one to the next and all interspersed with history or other factual t...
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