Chris Offutt

The Same River Twice

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At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north -- into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans. Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he'd be: settled down with a pregnant wife. Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of his youthful journeys with that of his journey to fatherhood in a memoir that is uniquely candid, occasionally brutal, and often wonderfully funny. As he r… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7432-2949-4
EAN: 9780743229494
Produktnummer: 9828548
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Gattung: A Memoir
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 197 g
Gewicht: 197

Über den Autor

Chris Offutt author of the critically acclaimed story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, the novel The Good Brother, and the memoir No Heroes, lives in Iowa City, Iowa.