The River Less Run: A Memoir - Hardcover

McLaurin, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1878086855 ISBN 13: 9781878086853

Publisher: Down Home Pr, 2000

About this title

From Booklist:

McLaurin's second memoir, written almost 10 years after Keeper of the Moon (1991), finds the North Carolina writer smack-dab in middle age: he's a 45-year-old cancer survivor who has piled his brother, his two kids, and his mother into a Winnebago and set off west to see the Rocky Mountains. But this is no mere road trip re-creation; it's a series of funny, sad, always fascinating glimpses of a life that was often lived too close to the edge. As McLaurin moves west, he moves backward in time, telling us about his alcoholism, his writing, his relationships, and his children. Although not as dramatic or artfully crafted as Frank McCourt's memoirs, this book has a similar feel: a man looking back on a hard life and finding the joys in it. Here is a man who came closer to death than we care to imagine and who now values life more dearly than ever before. A candid, honestly written memoir sure to appeal to fans of the genre. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Down Home Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1878086855
• ISBN 13: 9781878086853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280