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050 00 $aAC8$b.P662 1998
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100 1 $aPickering, Sam,$d1941-
245 10 $aDeprived of unhappiness /$cSam Pickering.
260 $aAthens :$bOhio University Press,$c©1998.
300 $axix, 152 pages ;$c23 cm
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520 $aIn this, his tenth book of essays, renowned raconteur Sam Pickering wanders from Nova Scotia to Tennessee, from a middle school athletic field to an English department. He tells stories about people named Googoo and Loppie. He examines trees and flowers. He watches a daughter play soccer and a son row. He attends funerals and remembers the past and imagines the future. His is the ordinary world observed closely.
520 8 $aBut reading Pickering makes life blossom. Suddenly the small and the neglected bloom and charm. He is opinionated, too. "Foolishness in low places", as a reviewer put it, is also his subject. Critics have compared him to Twain and Montaigne and have said his sentences flow like silk, caught in a breeze of verbs and nouns.
520 8 $aDeprived of Unhappiness is a book that describes living -- living within a family and with Everyman's hopes and fears. As the narrator roams hill and field, he tries to make sense of life. Even better, he enjoys life, its big rooms and its small, dusty corners. Pickering breathes life into the weary letters of carpe diem.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aPickering, Sam, 1941-$tDeprived of unhappiness.$dAthens : Ohio University Press, ©1998$w(OCoLC)988860391
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