Fr. 37.50

Mailman - My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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"Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old hometown [of Blacksburg, Virginia]. Suddenly, he was the guy with the goods, delivering dog food and respirators and lube and heirloom tomato seeds and Lord of the Rings replica swords. He transported chicken feed to grandmothers living alone in the mountains and forded a creek with a refrigerator on his back. But while he carried the mail, he also carried a whole lot more than just the mail, including a family legacy of rage and the anxiety of having lost his identity along with his corporate job. And yet, slowly, surrounded by a ragtag but devoted band of letter carriers, working this different kind of job, Grant found himself becoming a different kind of person. He became a lifeline for lonely people, providing fleeting moments of human contact and the assurance that our government still cares"--

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Stephen Starring Grant

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Autori Stephen Starring Grant
Editore Simon & Schuster USA
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 01.07.2025
 
EAN 9781668018040
ISBN 978-1-66801-804-0
Dimensioni 148 mm x 220 mm x 27 mm
Categorie Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie

Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Social welfare & social services, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Rural communities / rural life, Social welfare, social policy and social services

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