Summer of Ordinary Ways

English

ISBN: 0873515439

EAN: 9780873515436

Category: Self-Help / Adult Children of Substance Abusers/Biography & Autobiography / General/Nature / Seasons/Social Science / Sociology / Rural/

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Release Date: 10/31/2005

Synopsis: Practising baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the country road with semi-trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.

Awards: Minnesota Book Awards – null 

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Summer of Ordinary Ways

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.2 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 12.98 oz

Pages: 192