May Days

Pickering, Jr. , Samuel F.

ISBN 10: 0877452040 / ISBN 13: 9780877452041

Published by University Of Iowa Press, 1988

About this Item

A fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 198 pages; A collection of eleven wry essays, illuminating the ordinary, making what is common in life stand out with gemlike brilliance. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 46740

Bibliographic Details

• Title: May Days
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877452040
• ISBN 13: 9780877452041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. 1st Edition, Hardbound, 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall), 198 pages.

From the Back Cover

Reaching into the past for anecdotes that live on and ranging in his personal experience from rural Nova Scotia to a New England college to small-town Tennessee, Sam Pickering finds his lessons in suburban and rural life, in the pressures of the workaday world, and in the temptations of nature. In his quest to further understand and appreciate our rich natural world and our roots in the past, he examines the many ways in which we are all kind and callous, loving and faithless, foolish and wise. Whether writing about Miss Kitty and Miss Jo Sewall, E. W. Childers and the fish he caught in Difficult Creek, or the naming and renaming of flowers, Pickering reveals an inquiring, gentle regard for nature and humanity. These eleven wry essays illuminate the ordinary, uncovering some of the subtle truths that lie unnoticed in the common events and realities of life.