Generations and Other True Stories - Hardcover
This third collection of true stories from award-winning journalist and novelist Bryan Woolley with an introduction by author John Nichols includes the deeply moving title story "Generations," as well as his features and personality profiles from The Dallas Morning News. In this volume of twenty-seven pieces, including the winner of a 1995 Missouri Lifestyles Journalism Award, "Poets Lariat," Woolley explores Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco and recalls the lost golden age of Mineral Wells, Texas. He returns to the site of a mysterious 1947 crash, believed to be that of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico.
He meets such people as musician and mystery writer Kinky Friedman, talks to residents of Alpine, Texas, about their famous new neighbor, Robert James Waller, author of Bridges of Madison County, and mourns the retirement of cartoonist Gary Larson.
He meets such people as musician and mystery writer Kinky Friedman, talks to residents of Alpine, Texas, about their famous new neighbor, Robert James Waller, author of Bridges of Madison County, and mourns the retirement of cartoonist Gary Larson.
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Bryan Wooley provides twenty-seven pieces of story-telling beginning with his lead story Generations as well as his features and personality profiles from The Dallas Morning News where he is a premiere feature writer. Wooley's story Poets Lariats explores Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco; another story recalls the lost golden age of Mineral Wells, Texas; another returns to the site of a mysterious 1947 crash believed to be a UFO, in Roswell, New Mexico. In his stories Wooley relates meeting such people as Kinky Freidman, musician and mystery writer; talking to residents of Alpine, Texas, about their famous new neighbor, Robert James Waller, author of Bridges of Madison County; and mourning the retirement of cartoonist Gary Larson. -- Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherTexas Western Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0874042356
- ISBN 13 9780874042351
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages295
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. xiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm. ; teal backed grey full cloth with gilt decorations and spine lettering ; dj. This third collection of true stories from award-winning journalist and novelist Bryan Woolley with an introduction by author John Nichols includes the deeply moving title story "Generations," as well as his features and personality profiles from The Dallas Morning News. In this volume of twenty-seven pieces, including the winner of a 1995 Missouri Lifestyles Journalism Award, "Poets Lariat," Woolley explores Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco and recalls the lost. Golden age of Mineral Wells, Texas. He returns to the site of a mysterious 1947 crash, believed to be that of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico. He meets such people as musician and mystery writer Kinky Friedman, talks to residents of Alpine, Texas, about their famous new neighbor, Robert James Waller, author of Bridges of Madison County, and mourns the retirement of cartoonist Gary Larson. Seller Inventory # 001388
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