Richard Snodgrass
Autor(a) de Kitchen Things: An Album of Vintage Utensils and Farm-Kitchen Recipes
Obras por Richard Snodgrass
The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use (Principles of Computer Science Series) (1989) 2 exemplares
Ballad of a laughing mountain 1 exemplar
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 35
- Popularidade
- #405,584
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 20
The first part of the book contains forty very short stories, most just a few paragraphs. A few are in multiple parts, the longest, I believe having nine parts.
The second part of the book is essentially a novellette, The Hill Wife. Each short chapter is preceded by a photo. It tells about an old farmer and his spouse, Maddie. Their son, William, a real estate magnate in Pittsburgh, comes home. William has heard that his mother is likely to be institutionalized, and he comes home to prevent his father's doing so. When he sees his mother, he realizes how far into dementia she has gone and then tries to insist on taking charge of the institutionalization.
William's father, Noah, and he have rarely seen eye to eye on things. Basically, we go back and forth between the one and the other with their reminiscences of their lives together. A few chapters contain rather muddled musings from Maddie. Over the course of things we get a rather nice portrait of complicated family dynamics.
I loved the little stories, the longer story, and all the photos. This book will be a treasure to revisit from time to time.
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