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Title: The Same River Twice: A Memoir by Chris Offutt ISBN: 0-7432-2949-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a surprisingly great read bring on the small authors
Comment: i picked this book up as a recommendation from a bookstore and it was great read.
The author who left home at age nineteen and drifts along with various jobs and finally ending up living on the banks of the iowa river.
He takes regular walks comtemplating how his life is going to change and how good a father he is going to be(his wife of course is pregenant)as he takes these walks the stories from his odd jobs are woven in.For me the best job he had was when hewas pretending to be a real live walrus in a small circus.This is a great book give it a shot
Rating: 5
Summary: An insufficiently recognized classic
Comment: This magnificent memoir is absorbing, funny and deep, full of surprises. One of the best things I've read in years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Country boy writes moving and hilarious memoir
Comment: Besides the fact that Chris Offutt is a great writer, I like the guy's work because he's so honest and genuine. For those of you who can't tell the difference, Chris is an authentic country boy. Reading this memoir and sections of his novel "The Good Brother", I recognize the rhythm of speech, turns of phrase, and basic life assumptions that are innate in country boys like us from the Great State of Kentucky and southward, although I'm afraid that some traits are more reflected in the guys I prosecute than in myself. Offutt has given an admirable voice to a class of folks who are ridiculed and berated, but rarely understood. Thank you for helping us understand, Mr. Offutt-those of us seeking to understand ourselves, and those for whom the country is a place to visit. I'm afraid there aren't too many people today who get sentimental when they hear their state song the way we do when we hear "My Old Kentucky Home" (or "Georgia on my Mind"). It seems like no one understands the point of standing on a handful of dirt from your homeland when you get married in a foreign land (or New York City). At least they will recognize great writing when they see it. And here it is in your memoir.
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Title: OUT OF THE WOODS: STORIES by Chris Offutt ISBN: 0684853760 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Kentucky Straight : Stories by Chris Offutt ISBN: 067973886X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The GOOD BROTHER: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt ISBN: 0684846195 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: 27 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt ISBN: 0684865521 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Hell at the Breech : A Novel by Tom Franklin ISBN: 0688167411 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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