Paramètres
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
En savoir plus sur le livre
This vivid memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life is “so raw and true you’ll gasp” ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). Heralding the arrival of an original American voice, By the Iowa Sea is a wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life. After his first cross-country motorcycle trip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his calling: he would travel; he would never cave in to convention; he would never settle down. Fifteen years later, he finds himself living in Iowa, working as an air-conditioning repairman and spending his free time cleaning gutters, taxiing his children, and contemplating marital infidelity. When the Iowa River floods, transforming the familiar streets of his small town into a terrible and beautiful sea, Joe begins to question the path that led him to this place. Exquisitely observed and lyrically recounted, this is a compelling and often humorous account of an ordinary man’s struggle to live an extraordinary life.
Achat du livre
By the Iowa Sea, Joe Blair
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2013
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 6,49 €
Modes de paiement
Personne n'a encore évalué .
- Titre
- By the Iowa Sea
- Sous-titre
- A Memoir
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Joe Blair
- Éditeur
- Scribner
- Publié
- 2013
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 1451636067
- ISBN13
- 9781451636062
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Famille, Autobiographies et mémoires, Relations, Biographies, Autisme, Déménagement, Rencontres, rendez-vous
- Description
- This vivid memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life is “so raw and true you’ll gasp” ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). Heralding the arrival of an original American voice, By the Iowa Sea is a wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life. After his first cross-country motorcycle trip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his calling: he would travel; he would never cave in to convention; he would never settle down. Fifteen years later, he finds himself living in Iowa, working as an air-conditioning repairman and spending his free time cleaning gutters, taxiing his children, and contemplating marital infidelity. When the Iowa River floods, transforming the familiar streets of his small town into a terrible and beautiful sea, Joe begins to question the path that led him to this place. Exquisitely observed and lyrically recounted, this is a compelling and often humorous account of an ordinary man’s struggle to live an extraordinary life.