May Days - Softcover

Pickering, Samuel F. Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877455228 ISBN 13: 9780877455226

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 1995

Synopsis

Reaching into the past for anecdotes that live on and ranging in his personal experience from rural Nova Scotia to a New England college to small-town Tennessee, Sam Pickering finds his lessons in suburban and rural life, in the pressures of the workaday world, and in the temptations of nature. In his quest to further understand and appreciate our rich natural world and our roots in the past, he examines the many ways in which we are all kind and callous, loving and faithless, foolish and wise.
Whether writing about Miss Kitty and Miss Jo Sewall, E. W. Childers and the fish he caught in Difficult Creek, or the naming and renaming of flowers, Pickering reveals an inquiring, gentle regard for nature and humanity. These eleven wry essays illuminate the ordinary, uncovering some of the subtle truths that lie unnoticed in the common events and realities of life.

About this title

About the Author:

Samuel Pickering is professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0877455228
• ISBN 13: 9780877455226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208