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Visiting Tom: a Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace Lrg edition
Michael Perry
Visiting Tom: a Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace Lrg edition
Michael Perry
Toiling in a shop Perry describes as ?an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake,? Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and ? now and then ? batches of potentially ?extralegal? explosives. As he approaches his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, Tom, famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to days of his prize Model A, and an anti-authoritarian streak refreshed daily by the four-lane interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps over 8 million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man?s equanimity and ultimately ? when he and Perry converse over the kitchen table as husbands and as the fathers of daughters ? unvarnished tenderness.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 1, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781611735628 |
Publishers | Center Point Pub |
Pages | 319 |
Dimensions | 154 × 221 × 26 mm · 489 g |
Language | English |
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