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Chargement... Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoirpar Poe Ballantine
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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. Interesting read. Does skip around somewhat but very interesting. Homicide, at least that’s my perception, was never solved. Crime in a 5000 person small town. Pretty interesting ideas in book. ( ) This is a portrait of the small northwestern Nebraska town of Chadron, a true crime mystery, and a memoir. There are so many funny characters and poignant reflections intermingled throughout the book that it is hard to define. The author's neighbor disappears and is missing for months while everyone in the small town develops an explanation for what happened to him. Ballantine describes the town, his own family and life, and the challenges of raising a child who might be autistic. There is not really a "story line" because of the meandering style of writing, but the book is definitely worth reading. Good golly, can this guy write. I'm not much of a blurb person but when a book is blurbed by both Cheryl Strayed and Tom Robbins, you can't get much higher in my book. So, yeah, so glad I did. He's like a crusty Michael Perry with a dash of Zen and humility and stupidity. Some of the best moments of writing address his son and his possible existence on the spectrum- really beautiful. The only reason this is not five stars is that one of the themes of the book is a mystery, a missing math professor who is eventually found murdered, and while the beginning of the book is a mix of the mystery and his family and his wandering ways, the end of the book is focused solely on the murder and the lack of any information about it. It's worth it for the turns of phrase and scenery. I am not sure how I acquired this book and I have never heard of this author before, but I definitely enjoyed reading this book. The story is an autobiography of a short time in the author's life involving his marriage to a Mexican woman who he has brought back to America, his maybe autistic son, a bunch of strange small town characters (the town being Chadron Nebraska), and a disappearance of a man that takes place there. The author definitely has a way with words. If you enjoy Thomas McGuane books or some of the recent non western books from Larry McMurtry you will likely enjoy this book, if on the other hand you find yourself reading a book and screaming out "Get to the point!" Then this book is definitely not for you. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantine's Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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