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Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards

Robert Olen Butler

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Description:From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a captivating and enchanting book of stories inspired by old postcards In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler examined America through the unusual perspective of the eyes of Vietnamese postwar immigrants. Now, in his widely acclaimed Had a Good Time, Butler rediscovers America using a fascinating kaleidoscope of postcards from a bygone era. For many years Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century-not so much for the pictures on the front but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Only Robert Olen Butler, who has been called a -master of enveloping his reader in the consciousness of a character- (Boston Book Review), could use these brief messages of real people from another age to create fully imagined stories that speak to the universal human condition. In -Up by Heart,- a Tennessee miner is called upon to become a preacher, and then asked to complete an altogether more sinister task. In -The Ironworkers- Hayride,- a young man named Milton embarks on a romantic adventure with a girl with a wooden leg. From the deeply moving -Carl and I,- where a young wife writes a postcard in reply to a card from her husband who is dying of tuberculosis, to the eerily familiar -The One in White,- where a newspaper reporter covers an incident of American military adventurism in a foreign land, these are intimate and fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary age.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards. To get started finding Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a captivating and enchanting book of stories inspired by old postcards In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler examined America through the unusual perspective of the eyes of Vietnamese postwar immigrants. Now, in his widely acclaimed Had a Good Time, Butler rediscovers America using a fascinating kaleidoscope of postcards from a bygone era. For many years Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century-not so much for the pictures on the front but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Only Robert Olen Butler, who has been called a -master of enveloping his reader in the consciousness of a character- (Boston Book Review), could use these brief messages of real people from another age to create fully imagined stories that speak to the universal human condition. In -Up by Heart,- a Tennessee miner is called upon to become a preacher, and then asked to complete an altogether more sinister task. In -The Ironworkers- Hayride,- a young man named Milton embarks on a romantic adventure with a girl with a wooden leg. From the deeply moving -Carl and I,- where a young wife writes a postcard in reply to a card from her husband who is dying of tuberculosis, to the eerily familiar -The One in White,- where a newspaper reporter covers an incident of American military adventurism in a foreign land, these are intimate and fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary age.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards. To get started finding Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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