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Loading... Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Timeby Michael Perry
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. My version was the Kindle ebook version. I read this book because it was recommended by my friend Heidi. I did like it, and the stories were fun, funny, interesting, smart, though a book which amounts to a series of vignettes isn't something that draws me in so much. Perry is a good writer with an interesting perspective on small-town life, and he has a really amazing job there as an EMT and a firefighter that has allowed him a way back into the community in which he grew up. Anecdotes of the characters in New Auburn were sweet, funny, sad. Overall very good book, just not so much my style. (  ) jopearson56 | Aug 23, 2009 |  This is the August Non-Fiction Book Club pick. It is about a baby boomer who returns to his home town to live after years of being away. He finds that he is no longer perceived as one of them and joins the volunteer fire department to prove his loyalty to the townspeople. The small town in Wisconsin has a population of 485. He tells the story in the first person and it is easy to travel along with him. Most of the book is about his adventures as a volunteer fireman which run the gamat from touching and heartwarming to TMI. Small towns are a hybrid unto themselves and this one is no exception. (  ) readit2 | Jul 25, 2009 | Very! Fucking! Good! (  ) damsorrow | Jun 11, 2009 | My favorite of his books. Loved the small town stories and pictures painted of the people who inhabit it. Reading Truck: A Love Story now, and not finding it to be as engaging. (  ) sproutchild | Sep 5, 2008 | This book was an important part of my naturalization as a Wisconsinite. I would definitely recommend it. ( ) ferdinand1213 | Jul 21, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060958073, Paperback)Here the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Michael Perry loves this place. He grew up here, and now -- after a decade away -- he has returned. Unable to polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Mike figures the best way to regain his credibility is to join the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he tells a frequently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and searing tragedy. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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