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Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Jackson is the author of two novels, "Life at These Speeds," a B&N Discover pick, and "In Summer," a Booksense Recommends selection. A graduate of Vassar College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Iowa City. Jackson is also the author of young adult novels under the name of Alex Bradley, and cookbooks including, "The Cornbread Book," which was nominated for a James Beard Award. He writes about food for the "Chicago Tribune" and the "Washington Post." Klappentext ?One of the most daring and affecting memoirs I’ve read.” ?Kevin Brockmeier ?Like walking through the pastures of your childhood and discovering they were bigger, not smaller, than you recall.” ?Leif Enger?Jackson writes about Missouri as the young Hemingway wrote about Michigan: with a clear eye, with hard-edged nostalgia, and (here’s the thing) with brilliance.” ?Darin Strauss THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF LIFE brings Jeremy Jackson his first love, the loss of his grandmother, and his sister’s departure for college?seemingly ordinary events that erode his innocence in a way that will never be fully repaired. In tenderhearted, steadfast prose, he recalls the pastoral wonders of his rural childhood: thunderstorms roaring of the prairie, fresh milk in bottles, bicycle rides in September sunlight, and the horizon vanishing behind tall grasses. At once elegiac and startlingly direct, these fluid and powerful missives evoke the pain and beauty of childhood. With storytelling informed by a profound sense of place and an emotional memory startlingly vivid, readers young and old will be transported and transformed by this coming-of-age tale. JEREMY JACKSON is the author of the novels Life at These Speeds and In Summer, as well as three cookbooks, including The Cornbread Book, which was nominated for a James Beard Award. He has also written novels for teenagers under the name Alex Bradley. He lives in Iowa.Reading Group Guide includedCover design by Christian FuenfhausenCover photos © Shutterstock "Jeremy Jackson's swirling memoir is built upon layers of well-chosen detail -- it remembers the weather, the geography, the history of plowed earth, the coal-smoke taste of coffee, and the aching love between the lines of handwritten letters. The result is like peering through a new lens at a familiar hillside, or walking through the pastures of your childhood and discovering they were bigger, not smaller, than you recall. Bigger, not smaller -- now that is the mark of a generous writer."-- Leif Enger, author of "Peace Like a River" ...
