My grandfather's book
Subtitle: generations of an American family
By: Gary Gildner.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Gildner, Gary -- Family; Gildner, Gary -- Childhood and youth; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Grandparent and child -- United States; Polish Americans -- Biography; Family -- United States
Genres: Biography.
Description: "On Gary Gildner's eleventh birthday, his Polish grandfather Steve Szostak was buried. Just before the undertaker closed the coffin, Gildner's grandmother Nelly quietly placed the book she'd found her husband holding at his death in the casket. "Always this Korzeniowski - even on his last day - and why?" Nelly asked her grandson almost two decades later.

It was in this moment - discovering his grandfather's devotion to Joseph Conrad - that Gildner realized the man he had followed round on a northern Michigan farm was someone considerably more. Inspired by Szostak's love of Conrad, Gildner embarked on a journey of self-discovery that took him from the Tatra Mountains in Eastern Europe to the Clearwater Mountains in Idaho, finding where the truth begins in his own life."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the trail; title: Keys; title: Alphabets and maps; title: Documents; title: Expression; title: A kind of fable; title: Recalling the last day; title: Where to?; title: Bringing home the baby; title: Early spring: the cougar; title: In the presence of the Clearwater; title: Beginning my education; title: Just a boy; title: A song; title: Where am I?; title: Work hard and die; title: A snapshot; title: The river; title: Hail Columbia; title: The old country and the new; title: Great odds; title: A flock of small birds; title: A stupendous grave; title: At least one pure disappearing act; title: Covering ground.