Download or read book Iowa s Lost Summer written by Iowa State University Press and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Sheldon Iowa Summers written by Donald De Vries and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy struck, Les, Lorraine, and Vern hated themselves for their part in it. Would they be able to find any grace and forgiveness? Would they be able to find and regain the love they yearned for and once had? This is a Novella-yzed-AutoBio and Story, a diorama, a series of Stylized, moving tableaus, in living, setting chapter scenes. Suddenly silence The sound of silence How quiet and peaceful A Northwest Iowa Farm town can be. "Les and Lorraine were naked in the back seat of his '55 Buckskin Tan Ford on a dirt road past the water tower near the Rolston farm south of town. Her hips moved without her willing them to do so. Small moans and squeals emanated from places far beyond human consciousness. The imperious urge thrilled and frightened him, threatening to suck him dry. He desired to simultaneously adore her and plunder her with rapture." Addendum and Disclaimer to, and an integral part of, the Novella-yzed-AutoBio and Story, Two Sheldon Iowa Summers: There is something I wanted you to know about this little story that I wrote, Two Sheldon Iowa Summers. There were two additional things I know my mother, Gladys, dear and well-loved lady that she was, had wanted during her lifetime. First, a number of times, because of my excessive drinking at a young age, she had asked me why I couldn't be more like Les. Second, she had four sons, and she had also wanted a daughter. Both of these things I made up and gave her in this story. She did have a son named Les in the story, and she did have a daughter in the story. Also, in this story, her husband, Waldo, did not die at the age of 54 of his first and only heart attack. Her son, Don, (there is no one by that name in the story) in real life did get sober at the age of 26, after having drank for ten years, which made her very happy. Ironically, the very same person, named Bob, who gave Don his first mixed drink at age 16, twelve stepped him into sobriety exactly ten years later. In real life. Gladys died of cancer of the liver and pancreas at the age of 67. In the story it is known, even though not shown, that Gladys and Waldo lived long and happily well into their upper 80's. No one in this story, regardless of name or cars, [OR ANY OTHER SIMILARITIES], was patterned after a real-life person in behavior, speech, experience, or nuance. It is a made up imaginary amalgam used for story-telling purposes. That is why it is called a Novella-yzed-AutoBio and Story. Any common names, places, and experiences are portrayed fictitiously, and are only non-actual facsimiles of what might have occurred, used in loving memory and tribute to the times and experiences of my youth. [THE ONLY TRUE AND REAL NAMES USED AS SUCH ARE THOSE ON THE MEMORIUM AND TRIBUTE PAGES NEAR THE END OF THE STORY FOR PEOPLE KILLED OR BADLY INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS OF THOSE SPECIFIC TIMES. IF I HAVE INADVERTANTLY USED NAMES I SHOULDN'T HAVE, OR HAVE NOT INCLUDED NAMES I SHOULD HAVE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW, AND I WILL MAKE THE CHANGES.] This is also an homage to my birth family and to my birth town and to countless others: Generally, everybody in my birth family was, and still is, the best. My mother and father, Gladys and Waldo, and my three brothers, Rod, Ken, and Terry, were and still are, specifically the very best a boy like me could ever wish and hope for. The same for my home town, Sheldon, Iowa. The same for my marriage family. The same for all my dear good friends. And a special mention to my friends in a certain anonymous organization. Thank you all for my good fortune and many blessings. (Some truths were realized later.) 'Known to Jack Kerouac as Shelton' - Prime focus - the 10% - Alcoholics, Addicts, Mentally Ill; and also their caretakers, the 90% more stable and able to care for others.
Download or read book Two Sheldon Iowa Summers written by Donald De Vries and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy struck, Les, Lorraine, and Vern hated themselves for their part in it. Would they be able to find any grace and forgiveness? Then they were struck again, even worse Would they be able to find and regain the love they yearned for, and once had? This is a Novella-yzed-AutoBio and Story, an action Diorama, a series of Stylized moving Tableaus, in living, setting Chapter Scenes. Suddenly silence The sound of silence How quiet and peaceful A Northwest Iowa Farm town can be. "Les and Lorraine were naked in the back seat of his '55 Buckskin Tan Ford on a dirt road past the water tower near the Rolston farm south of town. Her hips moved without her willing them to do so. Small moans and squeals emanated from places far beyond human consciousness. The imperious urge thrilled and frightened him, threatening to suck him dry. He desired to simultaneously adore her and plunder her with rapture." Addendum and Disclaimer to, and an integral part of, the Novella-yzed-AutoBio and Story, Two Sheldon Iowa Summers: There is something I wanted you to know about this little story that I wrote, Two Sheldon Iowa Summers. There were two additional things I know my mother, Gladys, dear and well-loved lady that she was, had wanted during her lifetime. First, a number of times, because of my excessive drinking at a young age, she had asked me why I couldn't be more like Les. Second, she had four sons, and she had also wanted a daughter. Both of these things I made up and gave her in this story. She did have a son named Les in the story, and she did have a daughter in the story. Also, in this story, her husband, Waldo, did not die at the age of 54 of his first and only heart attack. Her son, Don, (there is no one by that name in the story) in real life did get sober at the age of 26, after having drank for ten years, which made her very happy. Ironically, the very same person, named Bob, who gave Don his first mixed drink at age 16, twelve stepped him into sobriety exactly ten years later. In real life. Gladys died of cancer of the liver and pancreas at the age of 67. In the story it is known, even though not shown, that Gladys and Waldo lived long and happily well into their upper 80's. No one in this story, regardless of name or cars, [OR ANY OTHER SIMILARITIES], was patterned after a real-life person in behavior, speech, experience, or nuance. It is a made up imaginary amalgam used for story-telling purposes. That is why it is called a Novella-yzed-AutoBio and Story. Any common names, places, and experiences are portrayed fictitiously, and are only non-actual facsimiles of what might have occurred, used in loving memory and tribute to the times and experiences of my youth. [THE ONLY TRUE AND REAL NAMES USED AS SUCH ARE THOSE ON THE MEMORIUM AND TRIBUTE PAGES NEAR THE END OF THE STORY FOR PEOPLE KILLED OR BADLY INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS OF THOSE SPECIFIC TIMES. IF I HAVE INADVERTANTLY USED NAMES I SHOULDN'T HAVE, OR HAVE NOT INCLUDED NAMES I SHOULD HAVE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW, AND I WILL MAKE THE CHANGES.] This is also an homage to my birth family and to my birth town and to countless others: Generally, everybody in my birth family was, and still is, the best. My mother and father, Gladys and Waldo, and my three brothers, Rod, Ken, and Terry, were and still are, specifically the very best a boy like me could ever wish and hope for. The same for my home town, Sheldon, Iowa. The same for my marriage family. The same for all my dear good friends. And a special mention to my friends in a certain anonymous organization. Thank you all for my good fortune and many blessings. (Some truths were realized later.) 'Known to Jack Kerouac as Shelton' - Good ol' Sheldon - Prime focus - the 10% - Alcoholics, Addicts and the Mentally Ill; and also their caretakers, the 90% more stable and able to care and provide for others - the 10% - the truly upset and disturbed beyond that experienced by the so called Ordinary Human Beings, Than
Download or read book You Never Get It Back written by Cara Blue Adams and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in the countryside of Vermont and her twenties and thirties in the northeast, southwest, and South in pursuit of a vocation, first as a research scientist and later as a writer. Place is a palpable presence: Boston in winter, Maine in summer, Virginia’s lush hillsides, the open New Mexico sky. Along the way, we meet Kate’s difficult bohemian mother and younger sister, her privileged college roommate, and the various men Kate dates as she struggles to define what she wants from the world on her own terms. Wryly funny and shot through with surprising flashes of anger, these smart, dreamy, searching stories show us a young woman grappling with social class, gender, ambition, violence, and the distance between longing and having.
Download or read book All Is Forgotten Nothing Is Lost A Novel written by Lan Samantha Chang and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting story of art, ambition, love, and friendship by a writer of elegant, exacting prose.
Download or read book The Stones of Summer written by Dow Mossman and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episodic coming of age saga.
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Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
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