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08.28: Michael Perry
2013-07-10 23:33:44| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace (Harper), acclaimed author Michael Perry returns with the tale of Tom Hartwig, an old-timer best known locally for building and firing homemade cannons. Tom has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to the 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 yet, Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man's sense of humor and, ultimately — when he and Perry converse as husbands and the fathers of daughters — unvarnished tenderness, all related with Perry's trademark blend of humor, insight, and heart.
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