Off Main Street
Subtitle: barnstormers, prophets, and gatemouth's gator : essays
By: Michael Perry.
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Perry, Michael, 1964- -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.; United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- -- Anecdotes.; United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Description: Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global.

Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection of essays balances earthiness with poetry, kinetics with contemplation, and is regularly salted with his unique brand of humor.