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The Ditchman's Tale
出版Independently Published, 2021-03-15
主題Fiction / General
ISBN9798722461957
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TxJ7zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In Real Work, historian-novelist Paul Schullery ("a keen raconteur"--Los Angeles Times) honors the muddy crafts, shrewd stoicism, and sad laughter of laboring life in the American Midwest of the late 1960s. While America gutted itself over social injustice and a faraway war, a college-dropout nicknamed "Doc" put in an illuminating year with a memorable crew of bottom-rung blue-collar workers, grinding through months of alternating hard work and boredom until there came a week so full of drama, laughter, and peril--so "complete and inexhaustible in its possibilities for wonder"--that suddenly the year of real work made perfect sense.Advance praise for Real Work:"Paul Schullery's tale is beautifully descriptive and humorous, with wonderfully cast characters." --- Lisa M. Owens, author of Worth the Coming Home and Worth the Seeing ThroughReal Work is a quietly beautiful book: honest, poignant, and exceedingly well written. It offers ample wisdom as well as humor - some wry, some belly-laugh-inducing. A thread of understated ominousness runs through the story, as workmen on a water crew in a small prairie town contend with powerful machines, collapsing ditch walls, and their own interactions as they reveal "the real innards of civilization" when digging holes "into the secret earth." The true power of the fiction emerges as the main character, known as "Doc" to his fellow laborers, gradually discovers "the strange depth of my loyalty to these men whose world I would never fully inhabit." --- Charles Fergus, author of A Stranger Here BelowAbout the author: Paul Schullery, is the author, co-author, or editor of more than fifty books of history and natural history, outdoor sport, memoir, and fiction. He has written for publications as diverse as The New York Times, Outdoor Life, BioScience, and Highlights for Children. For his work he has received two honorary doctorates, the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado Center of the American West, a Panda Award for television screenwriting from Wildscreen International, and numerous other honors. Real Work is Paul's fifth book of fiction, the previous including The Time Traveler's Tale: Chronicle of a Morlock Captivity, and Diamond Jubilee: Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, and the Peril of the Empire.