Description |
1 online resource (162 p.) |
Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Author's Note; Spring; Summer; Fall; Winter; Looking for Byron: The Complete Account; Afterword; About the Author; Back Cover |
Summary |
The thoughts, scenes, and observations gathered in this collection written by an aging Elroy Bode concern themselves on the surface with the daily happenings during a typical year, reflecting the author's sense of kinship with the people, creatures, and beauty of the Texas desert. Upon closer inspection, however, these short sketches deal with the nature and meaning of life and the inevitable loss of its pleasures, satisfactions, and mysteries-especially in the context of the natural world that surrounds him. The book ends with a long and powerful recounting by Bode of the incredible circumsta. |
Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
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Texas -- Biography.
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Texas -- History.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
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Genre |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Freading.
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Related To |
Print version: Bode, Elroy El Paso Days Chicago : Wings Press,c2014 9781609403416 |
ISBN |
9781609403423 (electronic bk.) |
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1609403428 (electronic bk.) |
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