Code: 04756411

Fishing for Chickens

Name: Fishing for Chickens
Brand: Persea Books Inc
SKU: 04756411
Price: 12.62 EUR
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by Jim Heynen

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Persea Books Inc, 2001
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Book synopsis

In this unique collection, sixteen writers, both established and new, take us to the back woods, farmlands, mountains, and coastal regions of the U.S. -- and into the lives of young people who are growing up there. Neither sentimental nor nostalgic, their richly plotted and poignant stories dispel the myth of the country idyll to reveal the tough realities of a rural childhood, as well as its rewards.In Rebecca Rule's "Walking the Trapline", a routine trek with her father and brother into the frigid New England woods becomes a test of survival for a young girl. "Sugar Among the Chickens" by Lewis Nordan, a comic tale, features a bored farm boy in Mississippi intent on catching a big rooster with a baited fishing line. When a flock of geese escapes the hunters' guns in North Carolinian writer Tony Earley's "Aliceville", a boy's disappointment is replaced by wonder as he realizes that their breathtaking passage overhead "made our world less small".The authors included are Pinckney Benedict, Nancy Brown, Nora Dauenhauer, Tony Earley, Eric Gansworth, Jim Heynen, Lewis Nordan, Tomas Rivera, Rebecca Rule, Wallace Stegner, Kathleen Tyau, Alma Villanueva, Jon Volkmer, Alice Walker, Vicky Wicks, and Hisaye Yamamoto.Whether rural native or lifelong urban dweller, every reader will come away from this collection with a deeper appreciation of the influence of place upon individual growth and of the special qualities of a country upbringing.