Backyard Maine: Local Essays - Softcover

Beem, Edgar Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884483177 ISBN 13: 9780884483175

Verlag: Tilbury House,U.S., 2009

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Book by Beem Edgar Allen

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These essays reflect the thoughtful observations of a writer who has done his best to deprive the world of some of its loneliness by reminding us what it means to be human.--Don J. Snyder, author of the acclaimed memoir Of Time and Memory and novels such as Night Crossing, Winter Dreams, and Fallen Angel

Reading this collection of Edgar Beem's columns is like spending the afternoon with an old friend. He covers everything from the first winter snowfall to the aging of a favorite dog to the dilemmas of a parent on prom night (and a lot in between) with insight, wit, and more than a little grace. It's fun to read and comes in bite-sized chunks that are always entertaining, usually funny, and often poignant. Mainers--and all those who wish they were a Mainer (which covers just about everyone)--will find plenty to recognize, chew on, and enjoy.--Angus King, senator and former governor of Maine

We need a Maine edition of the New Yorker, so Edgar Allen Beem can write the "Talk of the Town" section as "Talk of the Non-Town." This book is wonderful; it's observant and funny, at the same time it's modest and expresses real feelings without sentimentality. Beem's daily life is far from dull. It's many poets' terrain-vivid images--a direct tone that still communicates how much emotion is off the page. Aren't you tired of self-absorbed memoirs? Read this instead. Beem is insightful and humane.--Ann Beattie, author of Park City: New and Selected Stories, Follies: New Stories, and the novel Chilly Scenes of Winter

Reseña del editor:

Most of these short, savvy essays have appeared in The Forecaster, in Ed's Universal Notebook column (named for the spiral-bound reporter's notebooks that he buys two dozen at a time), or in the Maine Times, where he was a staff writer for a number of years. He started reporting when he was a sophomore at Westbrook High, writing for the Westbrook American, and aside from a stint as a librarian at the Portland Public Library after college, he's been scribbling for a living in Maine for his working life. Opinionated, insightful, humorous, and sometimes controversial, Ed Beem enjoys his role as a local observer, and these essays will resonate with anyone tuned in to day-to-day life in backyard Maine.

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• Verlag: Tilbury House,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0884483177
• ISBN 13: 9780884483175
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224