| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 288 pages ; 19 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-288). |
| Summary |
"A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
My Birthday, Again -- The Wide Berth -- Jeff Being Jeff -- Communal Walking Stick -- The Perfect Notebook -- The Perfect Spoon (or Cup) -- The Clothesline -- Free Stuff -- Daisy Returns -- Alright Baby! -- The Full Moon! -- Shortcut -- Babies Again (Seriously) -- Animalympics -- Under the Table -- Hole in the Head, Redux; Coda: Negretting -- The Lady in the Tree -- The Lady on the Porch -- How Good It Feels -- Braces on Adults -- (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes -- Dream Dancing -- Sweet Potato Harvest -- Squirrel in a Pumpkin -- Blue-Spectacle Tulips Hearty to Zone 4 -- Snoopy -- One Million Kisses -- Honey Buns -- Lyrica -- Vernacular Driving -- As Is My Mother's Way Sometimes -- Goodbye Nana -- Unusual Mailbox -- Boom: Here's Loo -- Gnomes -- OREO Speedwagon -- Dad in Dream Unaging -- My Neighbor's Face -- Scarecrow the World -- Michael McDonald -- Mistranscription -- DeBarge on Tiny Desk -- Garlic Sprouting -- Being Read To -- Gucci -- Helmets Free -- The Complimentary Function -- Early! -- Be Direct -- Imposter (Syndrome) -- The Tagalog Word for Which -- Truly Overnight Sometimes It Seems -- Not This Dog -- I'd Prefer Not To -- Improvised Pocket Parks -- The Purple Iris Angel -- Tag and Such -- Paper Menus (and Cash!) -- Eat Candy! Destroy the State! -- At the End of a Photoshoot with My Friend Natasha, Walking Here and There Through the Orchard, Facing This Way, then That, in Front of the Peach Tree -- Friends Let Us Do Our Best Not to Leave This Life Having Not Loved What We Love Enough -- The Door -- The Minor Codiality -- Small Fluffy Things -- Riiiiiita, Riiiiiiita! -- Hands for Carrying -- Mulberry Picking -- Garlic Harvest (NC-17) -- Sunflower in the Mortar -- Yellowjackets -- The Courtesy of Truckers -- How Literature Saved My Life -- Hickies, Ostentatiously Blandished -- Dream Redux -- Angels All -- Sunergos -- Hugging in the Co-Op -- Throwing Children -- The Cave City Watermelon Festival -- "To Respect Each Other's Madness and Right to Be Wrong" -- My Birthday, Again. |
| Subject |
Gay, Ross, 1974- -- Anecdotes.
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Joy -- Anecdotes.
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Happiness -- Anecdotes.
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Joy and sorrow -- Anecdotes.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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Anecdotes.
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| ISBN |
9781643753096 (hardcover) : $28.00 |
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1643753096 (hardcover) |
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