A porch sofa almanac / / Peter Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Peter <1946 Nov. 19->
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| Titolo: |
A porch sofa almanac / / Peter Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (149 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 977.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | American essays |
| Soggetto geografico: | Minnesota Anecdotes |
| Note generali: | "This is a book of short essays about small things. Most of them aired as commentaries on Minnesota Public Radio's Morning Edition with Cathy Wurzer"--Pref. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Porch Sofas; Off to College: A Parental Spreadsheet; School Starts This Morning; We Want to Go Back, Too; In Praise of Small-Town Football; Conflicted; Autumn Golf; An Open Letter to the City of Hopkins; Hudson's Bay Blankets; Splitting Wood; The Menu Changes; Good Autumn Reads; Darn Packers Fans; Election Night Radio; No-Bleeping-Vember; Thanksgiving Road Game; A Thanksgiving Lesson; An Amusing Pastime; North Country Fashion Statement; Winter Wimps; Together Again for the Holidays; Sulking in a Winter Wonderland; A Christmas Shopping Memory; Now It Can Be Christmas |
| Alas, Poor TaurusDog Days in the Ice Fishing Shack; The Inscrutable Finn; Crows; Real World Valentine's Day; A Timeless Saga; Split-level Shack-whacky; Contemplating Gutter Gloves; Thinking Ill of the Literate; Jogging Again; Talk about Your Golf Drives; Cooking with Grandma; Are You with Us? Or Are You One of Them?; Planting Corn; A Little Frugality, Por Favor; Lilac Season; Meditation on a Green Minivan; They're Back; What's the Rush?; A Tiny Discrepancy; Is Ambivalence the Perfect Father's Day Gift?; Tacky, Tacky, Tacky; People Watching at Lake Calhoun; Little League. Big Problem. | |
| Thanks, MomMeditation on a Lawnmower; A Minnesota Must; On Finding a Bungee Cord; In Praise of Municipal Golf; Who Turned on the Air Conditioning?; Homegrown Tomatoes; Still Going Out for the Team; Start the State Fair without Me; A Fifties Flashback; Acorns and Toyotas; 4 Sale | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For Peter Smith, the assignment from Minnesota Public Radio was simple: try to do something about Minnesota . So he began exploring the simple, everyday Minnesota things he came across and sharing them with listeners each Tuesday morning. The result is a hilarious, often wry, and always remarkable portrait of everyday life in the Land of 10,000 Lakes that will resonate with Minnesotans from the state's biggest cities to its smallest towns. A Porch Sofa Almanac is the first collection of Smith's essays for MPR-stories that keep close to the ground and reflect on the common experiences of being |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A porch sofa almanac |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-7535-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817039703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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