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Best of Pickering
E-bok, 2009
485 kr
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Praise for Sam Pickering: "Pickering has all of Thurber''s humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educated, wise, and capable of a wide range of stylistic effects." ----Jay Parini ". . . he writes in the …
Waltzing the Magpies
A Year in Australia
E-bok, 2011
477 kr
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Praise for Sam Pickering: "The art of the essay as delivered by Mr. Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." --- The New York Times Book Review "Reading Pickering . . . is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend." --- Smithsonian "What a joy it is to ''mess around'' with …
Living to Prowl
Inbunden, 1998
662 kr
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Reading Pickering is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend, said Smithsonian magazine. Living to Prowl, Sam Pickering's ninth collection of essays, finds the acclaimed author walking familiar paths, taking time to enjoy family, friends, nature, and other simple pleasures.Like …
Dreamtime
A Happy Book
E-bok, 2012
331 kr
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Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering—the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society—guides us on a …
Edinburgh Days
Or Doing What I Want to Do
E-bok, 2012
169 kr
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Tales of meandering walks through Scotland''s capital by an essayist known for "often hilarious, sometimes poignant, takes on life" (The New York Times). After a forty-year absence from the city, Sam Pickering—author, literary scholar, and inspiration for the lead character in Dead Poets …
Happy Vagrancy
Essays from an Easy Chair
Av Sam Pickering, Scot Danforth
Häftad, 2015
252 kr
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The essays in Sam Pickering’s new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wandering the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling through Nova Scotia, Pickering is able to work a quotation, …
One Grand, Sweet Song
Essays
E-bok, 2016
295 kr
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One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to Caribbean and Canada—but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and …
World Was My Garden, Too
E-bok, 2019
153 kr
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He roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind and thought. He explores shorelines and climbs "hillish" mountains. He sits on porches and talks to passersby and their dogs. He meets strange and delightful people, most of whom are real.
Terrible Sanity
E-bok, 2021
153 kr
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"Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickering''s essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. "Life doesn''t have a neat beginning and a tidy end," Roger, a character in V. S. Naipaul''s Half a Life, says. "Life is always going on." In this collection, Pickering depicts the joy and sadness of …
Being Home
An Anthology
Av Bob Kunzinger, Sam Pickering
E-bok, 2021
141 kr
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Being Home is a collection of personal essays about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory and emotions. It is different for everyone; it is different for members of the same family, and it most likely has nothing to do with where you were born or grew up. Award-winning essayists Sam Pickering …
Gate in the Garden Wall
E-bok, 2022
148 kr
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Familiar essays by Sam Pickering, who has written more than thirty books and barrows of articles. When not at his desk, he was in the classroom, the last thirty-five years teaching English at the University of Connecticut.
"e;The Truth"e;
E-bok, 2023
141 kr
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This summer Sam Pickering and his wife Vicki attended a pro-fessional wrestling match in a small arena in Nova Scotia. They sat in folding chairs on the front row. They ate “Montreal Sausages” drowning in ketchup and awash with onions. They cheered heroes and laughed at villains. In the middle of …
Waltzing the Magpies
A Year in Australia
Inbunden, 2004
473 kr
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Praise for Sam Pickering:"The art of the essay as delivered by Mr. Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble." ---The New York Times Book Review"Reading Pickering . . . is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend."---Smithsonian"What a joy it is to 'mess around' with Professor Sam …
Best of Pickering
Inbunden, 2004
525 kr
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Praise for Sam Pickering:"Pickering has all of Thurber's humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educated, wise, and capable of a wide range of stylistic effects."----Jay Parini". . . he writes in the …
Deprived of Unhappiness
Inbunden, 1998
267 kr
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In this, his tenth book of essays, renowned raconteur Sam Pickering wanders from Nova Scotia to Tennessee, from a middle school athletic field to an English department. He tells stories about people named Googoo and Loppie. He examines trees and flowers. He watches a daughter play soccer and a son …
All My Days Are Saturdays
Häftad, 2014
253 kr
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A New York Times article once stated that “the art of the essay as delivered by [Sam] Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble.” As Pickering himself puts it, “Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more and more to me. And if I’m on the front porch, I am in a …
Little Fling
And Other Essays
Inbunden, 1999
348 kr
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“These essays are saturated in Pickering’s quirky, warm, amusing, and bemused sense of the world.”Jay PariniAuthor of Robert Frost: A Life and Benjamin’s CrossingNo matter where he finds himself, Sam Pickering’s thoughts invariably return to his roots. Whether traipsing through a New England field …
Last Book
Inbunden, 2001
348 kr
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Readers familiar with Sam Pickering's delightful essays will certainly hope that the title of his latest collection is not intended as prophecy. A true original, Pickering offers observation on everyday life that never fail to sparkle with wit, insight, amusement, and wonder.Freely blending fact …
Autumn Spring
Häftad, 2007
251 kr
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“No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing.” -Pat C. Hoy II, New York UniversitySam Pickering's essays are funny and wise-and always intoxicating, eggnog to warm glazed winter nights and juleps to cool sweltering summer days. He wanders Connecticut, Canada, …
One Grand, Sweet Song
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to the Caribbean and Canada—but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and …
Journeys
Häftad, 2011
137 kr
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‘Journeys’ is a collection of essays in which Sam Pickering mulls travelling. He travels to Nova Scotia and New Zealand. He wanders the South and makes speeches in the Mid-West. He haunts libraries in hopes of stumbling across intriguing oddity. As he meanders he ponders teaching and the natural …
