A lucky American childhood
- 作者: Engle, Paul,
- 出版: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press 1996.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxiv, 192 pages).
- 叢書名: Singular lives
- 標題: Electronic books. , 1900-1999 , Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 Childhood and youth. , Manners and customs. , Iowa , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Editors, Journalists, Publishers. , Biographies. , POETRY , Poets, American 20th century -- Biography. , Electronic book. , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY , Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Social life and customs. , Poets, American , Social life and customs. , English. , Engle, Paul, , BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary. , Engle, Paul, 1908-1991. , Iowa Cedar Rapids. , American Literature. , Cedar Rapids (Iowa) , Editors, Journalists, Publishers. , Poets, American. , Literary. , Childhood and youth. , AmericanGeneral. , Languages & Literatures. , POETRY American -- General.
- ISBN: 1587290596 , 9781587290596
- ISBN: 0877455406 , 9780877455400 , 9781587296369 , 1587296365
- 試查全文@TNUA:
- 附註: Foreword by Albert E. Stone; Dedication; Paul Engle: A Poem; Eva; Tom; The Drug Scene; News and the Boy; The Importance of Uncles; Hiawatha and My Aunt Bertha; The Glory of the Senses; The Horse and I; Those Damn Jews; Remember Memorial Day?; That Fabulous Old Fourth of July; Where the World Seems Right and Good -- The Iowa State Fair; Our Dangerous Thanksgiving; Christmas Eve and My Mother's Hands; An Old-Fashioned Christmas.
- 摘要: More than any other individual, Paul Engle was the spirited force behind the creative writing workshops now so abundant in America. His indomitable nature, enthusiasm, and great persuasive powers, coupled with his distinguished reputation as a poet, loomed large behind the founding of the influential Iowa Writers' Workshop. A Lucky American Childhood will appeal to people with memories of the small-town America that Paul Engle describes with such affectionate realism and to all those interested in the roots of this renowned man of letters.
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- 系統號: 005287129
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Born in 1908, Paul Engle grew up the son of a livery stable keeper. As he writes in his dedication to this loving account, "I had a lucky life. Such a way will never be lived here again. It has gone with the wild buffalo skinners and the Indian fighters, with my mother's hands whose tough calluses tore the sheets as she made my bed, with that marvelous rich reek of harnesses and saddle leather, of horse manure and sweat which I happily breathed each day". The anecdotes are rich and captivating. As a boy Engle sold newspapers to factory workers at Quaker Oats and followed his route out to the city limits where coyotes howled in the woods. He helped his father break and train gaited saddle horses in all weathers and seasons. From family holidays with lively activities, uncles, aunts, and memorable foods to his job in the neighborhood drugstore dispensing castor oil, sodas, tonics, and linaments, Engle's absorbing stories capture the characters and atmosphere of American life just after the turn of the century.
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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