Where rivers change direction
By: Mark Spragg
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780874806175
Subjects: Social life and customs; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: There's no trace of sentimentality here, just a close look at a rugged childhood and early manhood. Spragg left childhood behind at age 11, when we went to work for his father. One of the strongest chapters details the winter he spent house-sitting in an isolated mountain cabin; it shows just how thin the line between sanity and insanity can become.
Table of contents: title: Contents: In praise of horses; title: My sister's boots; title: Bones; title: Wapiti school; title: The circusmaster; title: A boy's work; title: Greybull; title: John and Jack; title: Tommy Two; title: Adopting Bear; title: Wintering; title: Wind; title: Recoil; title: A ditch burning.