Temple Stream - Hardcover

Roorbach, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385336543 ISBN 13: 9780385336543

Publisher: Dial Pr, 2005

Synopsis

A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an "outsider" amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood. By the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning Big Bend. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Here is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers, -- Melanie Rae Thon

Roorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.--Jay Parini, author of The Last Station

Here is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers, --Melanie Rae Thon, author of "First, Body"

About the Author:

Bill Roorbach, recent winner of an O. Henry Award, is the author of Big Bend, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award; a novel, The Smallest Color; and a memoir, Summers with Juliet, among other books of nonfiction. His short work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Granta, and the New York Times Magazine, and been widely anthologized. Currently, he holds the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross. Temple Stream flows from an article that first appeared in Harper's Magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385336543
• ISBN 13: 9780385336543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288