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Chargement... Sawdusted: Notes from a Post-Boom Millpar Raymond Goodwin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. One of this year's Michigan Notable Books, Sawdusted builds upon the history of the lumber industry in Michigan. Old photos in a restaurant provide Goodwin with an an opportunity to reminisce on his experiences and relate them to Michigan's history. The people he knew could have been some of the same men memorialized on the burger-joint's walls. Whiskey Tim, Tattoo Man, Blue Old Man, and Big Tom are just a few of the interesting characters the reader meets. Goodwin is a great storyteller! ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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When Raymond Goodwin started work at a Michigan sawmill in 1979, the glory days of lumbering were long gone. But the industry still had a faded glow that, for a while, held him there. In Sawdusted Goodwin wipes the dust off his memories of the rundown, nonunion mill where he toiled for twenty months as a two-time college dropout. Spare, evocative character sketches bring to life the personalities of his fellow millworkers--their raucous pranks, ribbing, complaints about wages and weather, macho posturing, failed romances, and fantasies of escape. The result is a mostly funny, sometimes heartbreaking portrait of life in the lumbering industry a century after its heyday. Amidst the intermittent anger and resignation of poorly paid lumbermen in the Great Lakes hinterlands, Goodwin reveals moments of vulnerability, generosity, and pride in craftsmanship. It is a world familiar, in its basic outlines, to anyone who has ever done manual labor. At the heart of the book is a coming-of-age story about Goodwin s relationship with his older brother Randy--a heavy drinker, chain smoker, and expert sawyer. Gruff but kind, Randy tutors Raymond in the ways of the blue-collar world even as he struggles with the demons that mask his own melancholy." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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