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1-878086-85-5
$23.95 hardcover
6" x 9"
259 pages
Down Home Press
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"If I could liken life
to one thing in this world," writes Tim McLaurin, "I would
choose a river." But rivers, a hard life has taught him, "are
all illusions."
Nearly a decade after his
highly acclaimed and popular memoir, Keeper
of the Moon, McLaurin returns to that genre to record a year at
mid-life, a year with many rivers to be tamed, a year that will take an
unexpected twist at the end, tossing him back into the whirlpool of
hospitals, radiation and chemotherapy, battling again for his life
against the cancer he had defeated ten years earlier.
The highlight of this year
was to be a long-planned trip westward in a Winnebago to take his mother
to see the Rocky Mountains. With them are his children, Meghan and
Christopher, his brother, Bruce, whose very marrow now fills his bones,
and his brother-in-law, Donnie.
As the group travels
westward, his mother weighing down the Winnebago with souvenir rocks,
McLaurin reflects on the journeys he has taken, the rivers he has run,
to reach this juncture--his divorce, his relationships with women, his
grueling bouts with alcoholism, his writing, and most importantly, his
family, especially his children. It becomes a journey of discovery,
opening his mind "deep and blazing like the throat of a morning
glory" to the most important fact of life.
about the author
Tim McLaurin was a Marine and Peace Corps volunteer who once was
known as Wild Man Mac, proprietor of a traveling snake show. He was the
author of several other books, including The Acorn Plan, Cured
by Fire, The Last Great Snake Show, Lola,
Keeper of the
Moon, The
River Less Run, and Another
Son of Man. He died in 2002.
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