Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299216349 ISBN 13 : 9780299216344

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

Synopsis

Open this book and you are in Door County, Wisconsin, strolling down Coot Lake Road a one-lane, dead-end gravel track just a few miles from Baileys Harbor and the Lake Michigan shore. Along the way you meet George and Helen O Malley, who are growing old gracefully. Russell, their brave and empathetic golden retriever, wags hello and offers you a paw to shake.
The Olsons and the Berges live just down the road. Bump Olson is the local septic tank pumper and birdwatcher extraordinaire, and Hans Berge, MD, PhD, was at one time the only Norwegian psychiatrist in Chicago or so he says. In a cottage out by the highway, you may spot Lloyd Barnes, ex Tennessee state trooper, hound fancier, and local man of mystery. Uncle Petter Sorenson, visiting from Grand Forks, takes the polar bear plunge at Jacksonport. Around the neighborhood you ll meet Deputy Doug, the flirtatious cellist Debbie Dombrowski, and Italian import Rosa Zamboni.
Dave Crehore s sketches of life on the Door peninsula also expound on:
the delights of codfish pizza
how to insult Canadians
what to expect at your fiftieth high school reunion
how to lose a school board election
the prevention of creeping old-fogyism
Marilyn, a buxom eight-pound smallmouth bass
and what goes on in the winter, when no one is there.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Colletta is assistant professor of English at Babson College. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel and the editor of Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother. Maureen O'Connor teaches English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299216349
• ISBN 13: 9780299216344
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Colletta Lisa, O'Connor Maureen
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