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Ralph Salisbury - So Far, So Good - 9780803245921 - V9780803245921
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So Far, So Good

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Description for So Far, So Good Paperback. A sometimes strange, sometimes lyrical, and often humorous attempt by an inveterate storyteller to recount "just things as they were" Series: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.

Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness. Does he remember this? Or remember being told? Regardless, he feels it, and will feel it again, bomb bay wind buffeting his eighteen-year-old body a mile above an old volcano’s jagged debris, and yet again, staring at photos of Korean orphans, huddled homeless in a blizzard after a bombing in which, at twenty-five, he’d refused an order to join. It is through such prisms of the past that Ralph Salisbury’s life unfolds, a life that, eighty years in the making, is also the life of the ... Read more

The survivor of a lightning strike, car and plane mishaps, explosions, bullets, a heart attack, cancer, and other human afflictions, Salisbury wonders: “Why should anyone read this?” The book itself resoundingly answers this question not merely with its sheer eventfulness but also in the prodigious telling. Salisbury takes us from abject poverty in rural Iowa during the Great Depression, with a half Cherokee father and an Irish American mother, through war and peace and protest to the freedom and solace of university life; and it is in the end (so far) so good.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803245921
SKU
V9780803245921
Shipping Time
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About Ralph Salisbury
Ralph Salisbury (1926–2017) was the 2015 recipient of the C.E.S. Wood Retrospective Award (celebrating a distinguished career in Oregon letters), the Rockefeller Bellagio Award in fiction, and the Northwest Poetry Award. His most recent books are Blind Pumper at the Well, The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, and Light from a Bullet Hole. Salisbury’s thirteen books evoke his Cherokee-Shawnee-Irish-English-American heritage. 

Reviews for So Far, So Good
"From birth to adolescence to war and back again, Salisbury hones in on the quieter moments of life. Steering clear of melodrama, he depicts a world captured in sepia tones, in which understated prose and humble observations best reflect the world that passed him by... Stylistically simple yet structurally complex, Salisbury's latest installment reads as a final chapter to a ... Read more

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