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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786515003321

Autore

Winship Robert

Titolo

Winship's Log [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas Review Press, 2014

ISBN

1-937875-56-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Authors, American -- Texas -- Biography

Winship, Robert, -- 1930- -- Family

Winship, Robert, -- 1930- -- Friends and associates

Winship, Robert, -- 1930- -- Homes and haunts -- Texas

Authors, American - Texas

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Segovia (Tex.) Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

winship's log; Introduction; A Dog's Life; A Sudden Change of Plans; In The Doghouse; The Engine That Ran Backwards; My First Lesson; Mission San Juan Segovia; It's Way Big Out There; A Snake For The Books; Are We Sheep, Or What?; Tomato Juice Works; They Do Talk Faster; Big Aoudad; Don't Bet A Stranger; Tale Of The Flying Plumber; A Clean Earth; Think Pig; The Biggest Noise; Catfish Heaven; Say It Again; Hail The Bowhunter; He Said-She Said; What You gain On One FrontYou Lose On Another; Keys To The Kingdom; Meet Ol' Bruce; Prodigal Sons?; The Direct Approach; The Great Spirit

Weather Or NotHow About These Two?; Heads Up. Here Comes A Bear; Wise Or Cautious?; Heroes, A Pair; Chinese Dragon; Blame The Barber; Dracula Lives!; The Great And The Humble; It Runs In The Family; To Skin A Bee; Germann; Raquel Raccoon; Joe McPhail; Careful What You Say; Can TV Democracy Work?; To Spank Or Not To Spank; To Sleep In Class; Heil! To Lufthansa; Poor Equals Friendly; Where There's A Will . .



.; Grandpa And Grandma; Senior Winship; Big Ben; The Barking Frog; . . . There's A Way; Discretion Rules; Some Have Charisma; Rent-A-Rabbit; Paul's Gospel; Golf; The Word is Stubborn

Bad To Good And Good To BadScary News; The Big, Bad Red Ones; Catering Wedding Receptions; Father Knows Best; Firewood Theft; Save The Males; Yo Mama!; CousinS' Camp; Ninety Yards in the Air; Cabbies I Have Known; BigTime Payback; Windy Bill Wright; Albonics; Doodles And The Pom-poms; . . . And Hold Down Three Jobs; A Trip To Galveston; christmas time

Sommario/riassunto

"I was trying to remember the other day exactly what my first memories are of Kimble County, of Junction, of Segovia, Texas. There is some spectacular stuff there, if I can bring it all to the surface-without making anything up. That's not real hard to do, but it takes time. You have to go slow."-Bob Winship"In my almost forty years of editing, from journals to anthologies to books, I have from time to time encountered a spectacular talent who, because of circumstance, has never been recognized for the genius that he is. Such is the case with Bob Winship, whose story collection The Brushlander