Good Slope (eBook)

A Collection of Essays

Elizabeth Rau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Apprentice House (Verlag)
978-1-62720-444-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Moving, bold, and funny, this collection of essays by Elizabeth Rau captures the poignancy of ordinary life through the voices of everyday people-children, friends, neighbors, and even the mail carrier. In vivid and lyrical prose, she chronicles her childhood in the Midwest, her many years as a newspaper reporter, and, above all, her plunge into motherhood in middle age. At a time when writers tend to grouse about raising children, Rau revels in her good fortune and the day-to-day: teaching her younger son how to read using "e;Garfield"e; comic books; encouraging her older son to design his grandmother's gravestone; observing the motley crew of boys who patronize "e;the yellow house"e; for years, bringing their wit, charm, and stuff, from yo-yos to baseball gloves. Along the way we meet characters in her neighborhood, like Ed the mailman whose true passion is growing and selling daylilies because they are "e;beautiful and resilient and won't die on you."e; Engaging, yet never indulgent, the collection elevates moments we take for granted into luminous stories about the experience of home.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2023
• Verlagsort: Baltimore
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-62720-444-X / 162720444X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62720-444-6 / 9781627204446