Rick Bailey

Enjoy Agenda (eBook, PDF)

At Home and Abroad

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Part memoir, part travelogue, The Enjoy Agenda takes readers from Rick Bailey's one-stoplight town in Michigan farm country to Stratford, England, to the French Concession in Shanghai, the Adriatic coast of Italy, and to a small village in the Republic of San Marino. With his self-deprecating style, Bailey recalls the traumas of picture day in elementary school and lugging a guitar to the Cotswalds and back. He reflects on food safety in China, relives a dental emergency in Venice, and embarks on a quest for il formaggio del perdono (the cheese of forgiveness) in the hills above the Adriatic. Bailey, whose voice is a combination of Dave Barry and Rick Steves with just a soupçon of Montaigne, writes with humor and wit about how these experiences reflect the issues and conflicts of contemporary American life: environmental change, life in digital times, and the vicissitudes of arriving at ripe old age. Throughout The Enjoy Agenda Bailey asks,...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496215260
• Artikelnr.: 72456049

Autorenporträt

Rick Bailey is a retired English instructor who taught writing for thirty-eight years at Henry Ford Community College in Michigan. He is the author or editor of several books on writing, including The Creative Writer’s Craft, and is the author of American English, Italian Chocolate:  Small Subjects of Great Importance (Nebraska, 2017).    

Inhaltsangabe

1. Inner Music
2. Shorty
3. Bridge
4. Call It a Dance
5. Tilt    
6. Bring Your Horn
7. Mindful, Bodyful
8. Tied    
9. The Birds and the Beatles
10. Cookies and What? 
11. GelatiAmo
12. Beheading
13. Idaho
14. Good Bad
15. Critters
16. iSmell
17. Alarm
18. Up a Creak
19. At Least It’s Not Terrible
20. Wreckage
21. About Your Stuff
22. Try a Little BLT
23. And Then You Eat It
24. Buddy, Can You Spare a Mao? 
25. The Dope with the Camera
26. ATM, Wontons, Lizard
27. Fang Xin
28. The Fifteenth Floor
29. Chalant
30. Just Call
31. Say What? 
32. Cowboys and Vespers
33. Planticide Now
34. The Cheese of Forgiveness
35. Please, After You
36. When Bacco Smiles
37. Have I Got a Ragu for You
38. Bite Down
39. Difficult Worm
40. The Enjoy Agenda