Columbia, MO, University of Missouri, 1991. First edition. 8vo. Lavender cloth with blue lettering embossed on spine, 177pp. Sam Pickering muses on fame and family and day-to-day doings of an ordinary life. In essays covering the year after the release of the movie he helped inspire, he seizes upon everyday events that are entertaining, infuriating and sometimes profound. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

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Title

Let It Ride

Publisher

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0826208010

ISBN 13

9780826208019

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Edition

Condition

New

Dust Jacket Condition

New

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Essays discuss fame, television, politics, darkness, forests, shopping, nature, and the death of the author's father

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Pickering is the teacher who inspired the film Dead Poets Society. In this collection of essays that track his experiences in the months following the release of the film, he explores the humorous aspects of unexpected celebrity and the changes it brought. Whether at home in Connecticut or at his vacation retreat in Nova Scotia, he kept close to nature, finding comfort in brushing his hands across oak trees, rambling in the night woods or simply ``thinking how lucky I was to be teaching English at the University of Connecticut.'' The quotidian details of his roles as husband and father, as well as caretaker of a dying parent, mingle with a relatedness to nature, so that the 12 essays constitute a warm and realistic appreciation of what Pickering calls ``the clutter of life.''

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