Bill Geist

Lake of the Ozarks

My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

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Produktbeschreibung

"Bill Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American heartland of the Midwest and traces his evolution as a man and a writer, in the summers between high school and college, before he went off to Vietnam and the country went to Hell."--Provided by publisher

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781538729809
• ISBN-10: 1538729806
• Artikelnr.: 54028392

Autorenporträt

Bill Geist is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including City Slickers, Little League Confidential, The Big Five-Oh, Fore! Play!, and Way Off the Road. Geist has won numerous Emmys and in 2011 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the hundreds of "singular, informative, entertaining" pieces he has done since joining CBS in 1987. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his service as a combat photographer in Vietnam in 1969. In 2018 he retired from CBS having battled Parkinson's disease for twenty-five years. Geist lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with his wife, Jody. They have two children, Willie and Libby, and four grandchildren.