Tom Springer

Broschiertes Buch

Harry's Lot

Beschreibung

Harry Jobber has run smack into reality and he was ill prepared for the meeting. Harry has drifted in his comfort zone and been content there much too long. He has become more of a kid than his own two children. He has become a fanatic on religious devotion and wants something going on at his church for the children of the community. He can hardly wait until his oldest child graduates from college so he, Henry, can come home to run the family business. Harry envisions his life growing much easier whereby he can help the kids fly their kites, the very young sail their little boats on his pond and fill the church with the young teenagers. He has very little ambition for himself. But Harry has an ungrateful wife that wants to move up in society. She is a fanatic about attending various clubs in the community where she can rub shoulders with the elite. She expresses dissatisfaction with their comfortable old home and wants to go to the suburbs. Harry dreads hearing of such a thing and certainly attempts to discourage any move. He cannot win an argument with his dominating wife. When the hard times come and they certainly do, Harry seems better equipped to face the future than his wife who has escaped poverty one time and wants nothing further to do with returning. Gertrude, the wife, is not happy with her lot and strains to make Harry into the man she thinks she wants. She wants affluence that she can touch. Harry just wants to live and let live in a world of his own. But the very hard time come. There is some beautiful poetry sprinkled throughout the novel.

Autor

Tom Springer writes about the natural world and how people can live more deeply in the "wild nearby" through conservation, observation and contemplation. He has spent more than 30 years as a writer, editor and manager, most notably for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the University of Notre Dame. His two collections of essays, The Star in the Sycamore (Mission Point Press) and Looking for Hickories (University of Michigan Press) were both named as Michigan Notable Books by the State Library of Michigan. Tom's essays have appeared in publications such as Michigan Blue magazine, Notre Dame magazine and Front Porch Republic, and have aired in spoken form on National Public Radio. A native of Three Rivers, Michigan, Tom lives with his wife, Nancy, and two daughters in an 1860s farmhouse. He gardens, fishes, keeps bees, and most enjoyably, tends trees. (Although on average, his three apples trees produce enough for about three pies per season.) As a volunteer, Tom has served on the board of the St. Joseph County Conservation District and the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy. He holds a master's degree in journalism from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781420885873
• ISBN-10: 1420885871
• Artikelnr.: 21209966