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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Dial Pr
Publication date
May 30, 2006
Pages
288
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385336550
ISBN-10
0385336551
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$14.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an 'outsider' amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood. By the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning Big Bend. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: I call the stream ours because our house is in its valley and a corner of our land touches the stream at a dramatic bend, and because my wife and our daughter (always in the company of our dogs) walk down to that bend every morning, every season. The stream is our point of contact with all the waters of the world.
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the many runes by which Bill Roorbach discovers a universe of nature along the stream that runs by his home in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom the generous-spirited Roorbach (aka âThe Professorâ) and his family might always be outsiders, these pages chronicle one manâs determination â sometimes with hilarious results â to follow his stream directly to its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist as well as award-winning author of fiction, Bill Roorbach brings his singular literary gifts to a book that is inspirational, funny, loving, and filled with the wonder of living side by side with the natural world.
Praise for Bill Roorbach âRoorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.â âJay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover âHere is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers.â âMelanie Rae Thon, author of First, Body
âRoorbach is a master at capturing and expressing joy.â âHartford Courant
âRoorbach has a knack for tapping into deep undercurrents and bringing them to the surface with the least amount of fanfare or fuss.â âL.A. Weekly
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the many runes by which Bill Roorbach discovers a universe of nature along the stream that runs by his home in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom the generous-spirited Roorbach (aka âThe Professorâ) and his family might always be outsiders, these pages chronicle one manâs determination â sometimes with hilarious results â to follow his stream directly to its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist as well as award-winning author of fiction, Bill Roorbach brings his singular literary gifts to a book that is inspirational, funny, loving, and filled with the wonder of living side by side with the natural world.
Praise for Bill Roorbach âRoorbach falls, for me, into that small category of writers whose every book I must read, then reread.â âJay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover âHere is a narrator who makes you glad to be alive, giddy to be in his presence, grateful to love friends and family and dogs with generosity and abandon, to show tenderness and thus be saved by strangers.â âMelanie Rae Thon, author of First, Body
âRoorbach is a master at capturing and expressing joy.â âHartford Courant
âRoorbach has a knack for tapping into deep undercurrents and bringing them to the surface with the least amount of fanfare or fuss.â âL.A. Weekly
Editions
Paperback
Reprint edition from Down East Books (December 7, 2014)
9781608933938 | details & prices | 288 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.84 lbs | List price $15.95
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Reprint edition from Dial Pr (May 30, 2006)
9780385336550 | details & prices | 288 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an 'outsider' amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood.
About: A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an 'outsider' amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood.
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