A Berkshire Boyhood

Author : Begiebing, Robert
Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN 13 : 1681140527
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Berkshire Boyhood written by Begiebing, Robert and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither celebrity-gawk, “misery memoir,” nor confessional melodrama, A Berkshire Boyhood is more reminiscent of such memoirs as Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life and Emily Fox Gordon’s Are You Happy? In fact, A Berkshire Boyhood will strike readers as a parallel universe to Gordon’s book, her own story of growing up in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as a privileged faculty brat and young girl in the 1950s. Berkshire Boyhood is a boy’s story of growing up from working class roots in that same place and time. It explores family troubles arising out of the wounds and separations of World War II, ethnic religiosity, and adolescent sexuality (1950s variety). Its deeper appeal comes from our curiosity about the 1950s and the Boomer generation, from the fraught relations between that generation and their parents, who fought WWII, from our interest in the influence of landscape on human development, and from a vision of post-war years as a decade seething with the anger and dissent of an incipient counterculture that would explode the sixties.

Author : Robert Begiebing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681141473
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Berkshire Boyhood written by Robert Begiebing and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Berkshire Boyhood: Neither celebrity-gawk, "misery memoir," nor confessional melodrama, A Berkshire Boyhood is more reminiscent of such memoirs as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Emily Fox Gordon's Are You Happy? In fact, A Berkshire Boyhood will strike readers as a parallel universe to Gordon's book, her own story of growing up in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as a privileged faculty brat and young girl in the 1950s. Berkshire Boyhood is a boy's story of growing up from working class roots in that same place and time. Although A Berkshire Boyhood explores family troubles arising out of the wounds and separations of World War II, ethnic religiosity, and adolescent sexuality (1950s variety), its deeper appeal comes from our curiosity about the 1950s and the Boomer generation, from the fraught relations between that generation and their parents who fought World War II, from our renewed interest in the influence of landscape on human development, and from a vision of the early post-war years as a decade seething with the anger and dissent of an incipient counterculture that would explode the sixties.

Author : John Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Men of Letters: Bryant written by John Morley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Aspenwall Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Cullen Bryant written by William Aspenwall Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 9781584200284
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkshire Stories written by and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Bulkeley first saw the Berkshires on a golden fall day in 1928. A day's outing from school had brought him up Bear Mountain where he ate a sandwich while his eyes feasted on the natural beauty spread around him. He was fourteen and had fallen in love with a place. Seven years later, after college, leaving behind the hurly-burly of commercial life, he went to live Thoreau-like in a small cabin on the shores of Plantain Pond on Mount Washington.

Author : Aleyn Lyell Reade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The doctor's boyhood written by Aleyn Lyell Reade and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William M. Thayer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732628825
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Boyhood to Manhood written by William M. Thayer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Robert Peters
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299141039
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crunching Gravel written by Robert Peters and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No nostalgic tale of the good old days, Robert Peters’s recollections of his adolescence vividly evoke the Depression on a hardscrabble farm near Eagle River: Dad driving the Vilas County Relief truck, Lars the Swede freezing to death on his porch, the embarassment of graduation in a suit from welfare. The hard efforts to put fish and potatoes and blueberries on the table are punctuated by occasional pleasures: the Memorial Day celebration, swimming at Perch Lake, the county fair with Mother’s prizes for jam and the exotic delights of the midway. Peters’s clear-eyed memoir reveals a poet’s eye for rich and stark detail even as a boy of twelve. “Peters misses nothing, from the details of the town’s Fourth of July celebration to the cause and effect of a young cousin’s suicide to the calibrations of racism toward Indians that was so acceptable then. It is a fascinating, unsentimental look at a piece of our past.”—Margaret E. Guthrie, New York Times Book Review “It’s unlikely that any other contemporary poet and scholar as distinguished has risen from quite so humble beginnings as Robert Peters. Born and raised by semiliterate parents on a subsistence farm in northeastern Wisconsin, Peters lived harrowingly close to the eventual stuff of his poetry—the dependency of humans on animal lives, the inexplicable and ordinary heroism and baseness of people facing extreme conditions, the urgency of physical desire. . . . Sterling childhood memoirs.”—Booklist “Robert Peters has written a memoir exemplary because he insists on the specific, on the personal and the local. It is also enormously satisfying to read, and it is among the most authentic accounts of childhood and youth I know—a Wisconsin David Copperfield!”—Thom Gunn

Author : J. Michael Lennon
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 1736494694
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mailer's Last Days written by J. Michael Lennon and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

Author : Charles Eastman
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Boyhood & From the Deep Woods to Civilization written by Charles Eastman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Deep Woods to Civilization" we will hear of a single-hearted quest throughout eighteen years of adolescence and early maturity, for the attainment of the modern ideal of Christian culture. It is clearly impossible to tell the whole story, but much that cannot be told may be read "between the lines." The broad outlines, the salient features of an uncommon experience are here set forth in the hope that they may strengthen for some readers the conception of our common humanity. "Indian Boyhood," presents the incredible adventurous childhood and youth which were a part of the free wilderness life of the first American — a life that is gone forever. By dint of much persuasion, the story has now been carried on from the point of that plunge into the unknown with which the first book ends, a change so abrupt and so overwhelming that the boy of fifteen "felt as if he were dead and travelling to the spirit land." In his second autobiography