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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by: Michael Perry List Price: CDN$ 16.50 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 12.05 You Save: CDN$4.45 (27%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9780061363504 ISBN: 0061363502 Label: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: August 09, 2007 Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Studio: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Sales Rank: 404202 Browse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - Love Among the Rubes"Summer comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies at the sun." If you're past a certain age, that opening line should remind you of the books that you read in your impressionable years; the ones that made you a reader for life. Think Richard Brautigan. Think Thomas Pynchon. Think Ken Kesey or Hunter S. Thompson. Michael Perry has a sensibility and a style that assimilate the best that these guys had to offer: Brautigan's sweet, sad quirkiness, Pynchon's God's-eye view of his characters' worlds, Kesey's brawny prose and close observational skills, Thompson's prickly - and very funny - clarity of vision and expression. He goes on to outdo them, however, in ... Read More: Rating: - Small Town Living Captured PerfectlyFrom describing interactions between feuding high school sweethearts in the middle of Main Street to Kodiak-chewing characters that make you say, "I know that guy," the picture of small town living Michael Perry creates for readers is dead on. I couldn't stop reading, laughing, sighing, shaking my head - this book has it all. Because I was raised small town Abrams, Wisconsin, I can honestly say that Perry captures the bittersweet life people live there and, he made me a little homesick. Please read this book! Rating: - Fine tales from the MidwestPOPULATION: 485 is a patchwork of stories, history & memories written from the perspective of a native son's return to his home town as a First Responder. Michael Perry writes with an unerring eye for community, nostalgia, tragedy, comedy & self-reflection. Tears & laughter are the spices which make this as welcome a read as a hot toddy on a cold night. Rebeccasreads highly recommends POPULATION: 485 for anyone who relishes the humor & drama of everyday life in a small American town hanging on to life by the roots of its families. Rating: - As fine a book as you will ever readReally. The author grafts one of the most gratifying writing styles I've every had the pleasure to read onto his experiences as an ambulance EMT and a fireman in his small Wisconsin home town. This creates a text of wonderful simplicity and beauty. The cover understates the case of the book. This book grows from the conflict between what we think and believe, and how life actually works out in the day to day details and dramas. (Now here's the improbable part: One Sunday morning, as I dragged my laundry up the hill to the laundry mat at 6 am - to miss the crowds - I saw this book lying in the middle of the street. There'd been rain the night before and it was soaking wet. On my way back from the laundry two hours later, it was still there, ... Read More: Rating: - Great BookA really enjoyable book. Perry is an excellent writer--a style that captures you. The book gives a great look into what volunteer firefighters do on an everyday basis, and he throws in some humor as well. |
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