Michael Perry

Visiting Tom (eBook, ePUB)

A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed author of Coop and Population: 485 comes a portrait of a unique individual and a dedicated way of life.

What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visitoften with his young daughters in towauthor Michael Perry finds out.

Toiling in his shop, Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, andnow and thenbatches of potentially extralegal explosives. Tom, who is approaching his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, and is famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has stories dating back to the days of his prize Model A and an antiauthoritarian streak refreshed daily by the interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps more than eight million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man's equanimity and ultimatelywhen he and Perry converse as husbands and the fathers of daughtersunvarnished tenderness.

PERRY'S the real thing. USA Today

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062097798
• Artikelnr.: 38008305

Autorenporträt

Michael Perry is a humorist, radio host, songwriter, and the New York Times bestselling author of several nonfiction books, including Visiting Tom and Population: 485, as well as a novel, The Jesus Cow. He lives in northern Wisconsin with his family and can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.