Fred's way
Subtitle: a novel
By: Craig Nagel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781504949781; 9781504949774
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Young men; Fiction; College students; Man-woman relationships; Faith; Jeunes hommes; Romans, nouvelles; Étudiants; Relations entre hommes et femmes; Foi
Other titles: Fred's way
Description: Fred's Way is a coming-of-age novel about a young man torn between going off to college to become an ordained Lutheran pastor or staying home in Chicago to marry his high school sweetheart. It resonates with the agony of someone trying desperately-and often comically-to find his role in a society that refuses to fit his innocent expectations. The central character, Fred Hansen, is at root a mystic, alive to the wonder and glory of life. Like a latter-day Don Quixote, he's never quite in synch with what others call reality, including the scientific world view of his premed roommate, Jimbo; the commonsense practicality of his girlfriend, Patsy; the argumentative mindset of Catherine Coyle, an attractive classmate with whom he gets entangled; or the spontaneous (and somewhat improvident) habits of Corning, a red-haired art major who lives down the hall. Fred's Way recaptures the torrent of changes sweeping through America at the start of the 1960s and gently explores the heartaches and triumphs we all encounter in the process of trying to find our place in the world. --
Table of contents: title: Chapter One.; title: "Destined for greatness" -- -- Chapter Two.; title: "Off to a troubling start" -- -- Chapter Three.; title: "As for a man, his days are like grass" -- -- Chapter Four. " An; title: unplanned development" -- -- Chapter Five.; title: "No good turn goes unpunished" -- -- Chapter Six.; title: "Bring on the clowns" -- -- Chapter Seven.; title: "Get your white ass packin'!" -- -- Chapter Eight.; title: "Welcome to Wonderland; so long sanity" -- -- Chapter Nine.; title: "What did you say you name was?" -- -- Chapter Ten.; title: "I try not to think about cows" -- -- Chapter Eleven.; title: "You can't know a thing except in terms of its opposite" -- -- Chapter Twelve.; title: "Three wise men in search of a neon star" -- -- Chapter Thirteen.; title: "It's the American thing to do" -- -- Chapter Fourteen.; title: "Mister irresistible" -- -- Chapter Fifteen.; title: "So this is what it comes to" -- -- Chapter Sixteen.; title: "There's a great big world out there" --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: About the author.