The Past Leads a Life of Its Own

About the author

Wayne Fields is professor of English and director of American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence and What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream.

Summary

This is a collection of 16 stories based on one boy's childhood in the rural American midwest in the 1950s, telling of his love of nature, his family and their often nomadic existence.

Product details

• Authors: Wayne Fields, Fields Wayne
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.1997
• EAN: 9780226248585
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24858-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 28 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction Series PF
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, True stories, Short Stories, True stories: general, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary