Population: 485

Population 485 is Mike Perry''s extraordinary and thoughtful account of returning to his small hometown of New Auburn, Wisconsin after a decade away. Unable to polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Mike figures the best way to regain his credibility is to join the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he traces his ''calls'' on a map in the little firehouse, noticing how the story of this tiny town emerges and builds to a final chapter that is at once devastating and transcendent. Perry crafts a captivatingly comic tale leavened with quieter meditations on an overlooked America as he grows to know his neighbors on a much deeper level. ''This is a quietly devastating book--intimate and disarming and lovely.''-Adrienne Miller, Esquire

About the author

Michael Perry is a humorist, radio host, songwriter, and the New York Times bestselling author of several nonfiction books, including Visiting Tom and Population: 485, as well as a novel, The Jesus Cow. He lives in northern Wisconsin with his family and can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Perry
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2015
• EAN: 9780061363504
• ISBN: 978-0-06-136350-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, HUMOR: Topic / Travel, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR AMERICAN VOICES, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, HUMOR: Topic / Adult, HUMOR: Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, HUMOR: Topic / History