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By the Iowa Sea, Joe Blair
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
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- Titel
- By the Iowa Sea
- Untertitel
- A Memoir
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Joe Blair
- Verlag
- Scribner
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 304
- ISBN10
- 1451636067
- ISBN13
- 9781451636062
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Biografien, Familie, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Beziehungen, Biographien, Autismus, Umzug, Dating
- Beschreibung
- <b>This vivid memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life is “so raw and true you’ll gasp” (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>).</b> Heralding the arrival of an original American voice, By the Iowa Sea is a wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life. After his first cross-country motorcycle trip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his calling: he would travel; he would never cave in to convention; he would never settle down. Fifteen years later, he finds himself living in Iowa, working as an air-conditioning repairman and spending his free time cleaning gutters, taxiing his children, and contemplating marital infidelity. When the Iowa River floods, transforming the familiar streets of his small town into a terrible and beautiful sea, Joe begins to question the path that led him to this place. Exquisitely observed and lyrically recounted, this is a compelling and often humorous account of an ordinary man’s struggle to live an extraordinary life.