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Autumn Spring by Samuel F. Pickering Jr. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Autumn Spring about?

No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing. -Pat C. Hoy II, New York University Sam 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, and the South, seeding his old farm in Nova Scotia with words and scattering paragraphs in and about classrooms at the University of Connecticut. He describes the great flowerings of summers and falls. He mulls over vanishing friendships, then hunts for buried treasure in a library. He endures a massage, ponders the genteel, and explores shadowy alcoves and books. For him home is where heart and heartache thrive together. Students make him laugh and weep, and in part his book is a teaching manual crammed with anecdotal good sense. He buries his old dog George and picks up Bert, a rescue dachshund addicted to unmentionable munchies and cloddish doggy behavior, an animal who obstinately refuses to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Pickering runs road races, although he says anyone in a motorized walker could leave him far behind. In Premortem he anatomizes his vanishing muscles and then decides to ha

Author

Samuel F. Pickering Jr.

Publisher

Univ Tennessee Press; University of Tennessee Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572335967

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Reference, Humanities