The Same River Twice: A Memoir

The Same River Twice: A Memoir image
ISBN-10:

0743229495

ISBN-13:

9780743229494

Author(s): Offutt, Chris
Edition: Reprint
Released: Apr 02, 2003
Publisher: Simon&Schuster
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
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Description:

At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north -- into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans. Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he'd be: settled down with a pregnant wife. Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of his youthful journeys with that of his journey to fatherhood in a memoir that is uniquely candid, occasionally brutal, and often wonderfully funny. As he reckons with the comforts and terrors of maturity, Offutt also discovers what is best in life and in himself.












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