num_pages: 172
description: From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.Excavating Rachael's room --Slow waltz for Georgia Ann --Incident at Sweet's Marsh --A canticle for roadcat --Romance --A rite of passage in three cushions --The boy from the Burma hump --Ridin' along in safety with Kennedy and Kuralt --Jump shots --The turning of fifty --I am orange band --Drinking wine the New York way --In Cedar Key, Harriet Smith loves birds and hates plastic --Brokerage --Running into Perry --The lion of winter --One good road is enough --Southern flight --A matter of honor
language: English
title: Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
titlecomplete: Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
genres: Short Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays
ratings_count: 674
publisher: Grand Central Publishing