false 13900 24687 0375758992 9780375758997 904 <![CDATA[Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167542751m/24687.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167542751s/24687.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24687.Don_t_Let_s_Go_to_the_Dogs_Tonight_An_African_Childhood 3.94 4875 Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.]]> 13900 3.89 6342 1297 2002 83477 0330433997 9780330433990 100 <![CDATA[Scribbling the Cat]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171046006m/83477.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171046006s/83477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83477.Scribbling_the_Cat 3.66 558 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood) journeys through modern Zambia, to battlefields in Zimbabwe and Mozambique with the scarred veteran of the Rhodesian Wars she identifies only as "K." Intrigued by the mysterious neighbor of her parent's Zambian fish farm and further enticed by her father's warning that "curiosity scribbled the cat" ("scribbling" is Afrikaans slang for "killing"), Fuller embarks on a journey that covers as much cratered psychic landscape as it does African bush country. Though she and "K" are both African by family roots rather than blood, she quickly discovers that 30 years of civil war have scarred them--and the indigenous peoples they encounter--in markedly different ways. "K" is a figure of monumental tragedy, a decent man torn by war-fueled rage, a failed marriage, and painful memories of an only son lost to tropical disease. His adopted Christianity offers him only partial absolution, and Fuller details his gut-wrenching confessions of quarter-century old atrocities with compassion and rare insight. Her prose liberally salted with a rich, melange of Afrikaans and local Shona slang, Fuller nonetheless struggles with a narrative whose turns are often unexpected, yet driven by humanity. There's a clear sense that the author's fitful journey into the past with "K" has opened as many wounds as it has healed, and spawned more questions than it has answered. It's that discomfort and frustration that often reinforces the honesty of her prose--and reinforces Thomas Wolfe's adage yet again. --Jerry McCulley]]> 13900 3.89 6342 1297 2004 3397706 0061470902 9780061470905 115 <![CDATA[State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255814209m/3397706.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255814209s/3397706.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3397706.State_by_State_A_Panoramic_Portrait_of_America 3.75 308 The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup comes an American road trip in book form: original writing on all 50 states by 50 of our finest novelists, journalists, and essayists

Inspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and '40s, now 50 of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the 50 states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today.

At turns poignant and funny, and always insightful, these 50 writers tell us something lasting and revealing about each state through personal memory or contemporary reporting that captures the essential qualities that make each state its own. With an array of revealing facts and figures comparing the 50 states in a range of surprising measures (toothlessness, military enlistment, suicide), State by State is more than an anthology: It is a classic American road movie in book form.

Featuring original writing on all fifty states

Alabama by George Packer
Alaska by Paul Greenberg
Arizona by Lydia Millet
Arkansas by Kevin Brockmeier
California by William T. Vollmann
Colorado by Benjamin Kunkel
Connecticut by Rick Moody
Delaware by Craig Taylor
Florida by Joshua Ferris
Georgia by Ha Jin
Hawaii by Tara Bray Smith
Idaho by Anthony Doerr
Illinois by Dave Eggers
Indiana by Susan Choi
Iowa by Dagoberto Gilb
Kansas by Jim Lewis
Kentucky by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Louisiana by Joshua Clark
Maine by Heidi Julavits
Maryland by Myla Goldberg
Massachusetts by John Hodgman
Michigan by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Minnesota by Philip Connors
Mississippi by Barry Hannah
Missouri by Jacki Lyden
Montana by Sarah Vowell
Nebraska by Alexander Payne
Nevada by Charles Bock
New Hampshire by Will Blythe
New Jersey by Anthony Bourdain
New Mexico by Ellery Washington
New York by Jonathan Franzen
North Carolina by Randall Kenan
North Dakota by Louise Erdrich
Ohio by Susan Orlean
Oklahoma by S.E. Hinton
Oregon by Joe Sacco
Pennsylvania by Andrea Lee
Rhode Island by Jhumpa Lahiri
South Carolina by Jack Hitt
South Dakota by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Tennessee by Ann Patchett
Texas by Cristina Henríquez
Utah by David Rakoff
Vermont by Alison Bechdel
Virginia by Tony Horwitz
Washington by Carrie Brownstein
West Virginia by Jayne Anne Phillips
Wisconsin by Daphne Beal
Wyoming by Alexandra Fuller </p>

and an afterword on Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Edward P. Jones

]]> 53313 3.90 669 176 28854 3.57 1803 402 3445 3.44 7560 960 1124 3.86 22035 3617 2578 3.62 21628 2690 762707 3.93 42378 3691 9388 3.88 17858 2465 3670 4.00 79840 10417 5855 3.67 3294 549 45374 3.62 3386 563 16541 3.97 4839 1109 13900 3.89 6342 1297 28186 3.82 1546 407 8055 3.54 7398 1108 3371 3.75 89236 11508 2122 3.88 19504 3476 2008 2074104 1594201838 9781594201837 103 <![CDATA[Cowboy: The Legend of Colton H. Bryant]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573270m/2074104.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573270s/2074104.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2074104.Cowboy_The_Legend_of_Colton_H_Bryant 3.94 256 From the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where it is that wisdom truly resides

Colton H. Bryant was one of Wyoming's native sons and grown by that high, dry place, he never once wanted to leave it. Wyoming loves me,”he said, and it was true. Wyoming -- roughneck, wild, open, and searingly beautiful—-- loved him, and Colton loved it back. As a child in school, Colton never could force himself to focus on his lessons. Instead, he'd plan where he'd go fishing later, or he'd wonder how many jackrabbits he might find on his favorite hunting patch, or he'd dream about the rides he would take on the wild mare he was breaking. At my funeral, you'll all feel sorry for making me waste so much time in school,”he said to his best friend Jake -- and it was true.

Two things got Colton through the boredom of school and the neighborhood“K-mart cowboys”who bullied him: His best friend Jake and his favorite mantra, a snatch of a saying he heard on TV: Mind over matter -- which meant to him: If you don't mind, it don't matter. Colton and Jake grew up wanting nothing more than the freedom to sleep out under the great Wyoming night sky, to hunt and fish and chase the horizon and to be just like Colton's dad, a strong and gentle man of few words. When it was time for Colton to marry and make money on his own, he took up as a hand on an oil rig. It was dangerous work, but Colton was the third generation in his family to work on the oil patch and he claimed it was in his blood. And anyway, he joked, he always knew he’'d die young.

Colton did die young, and he died on the rig -- —falling to his death because the drilling company had neglected to spend two thousand dollars on the mandated safety rails that would have saved his life. His family received no compensation. But they didn't expect to -- they knew the company's ways, and after all as Colton would have said: Mind over matter.

In Scribbling the Cat, Alexandra Fuller brought us the examined life of a Rhodesian soldier; now -- in her inimitable poetic voice and with her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue—-- she brings before us the life of someone much closer to home, as unexpected as he is iconic. The moving, tough, and in many ways quintessentially American story of Colton H. Bryant's life could not be told without also telling the story of the land that grew him -- the beautiful and somehow tragic Wyoming; the land where there are still such things as cowboys roaming the plains, where it's relationships that get you through, and where a just, soulful, passionate man named Colton H. Bryant lived and died.]]> 13900 3.89 6342 1297 2008 7082699 1402561326 9781402561320 0 <![CDATA[Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7082699-don-t-let-s-go-to-the-dogs-tonight 0.0 0 13900 3.89 6342 1297 2003 7284840 1402578113 9781402578113 0 <![CDATA[Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, An African Childhood]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7284840-dont-lets-go-to-the-dogs-tonight-an-african-childhood 0.0 0 13900 3.89 6342 1297 291972 3.82 347 75 2002 60828 8426480098 9788426480095 0 <![CDATA[Piel Blanca]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60828.Piel_Blanca 0.0 0 13900 3.89 6342 1297 2003 5746487 2253118125 9782253118121 0 <![CDATA[L'Afrique au coeur : Carnet de route]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5746487.L_Afrique_au_coeur_Carnet_de_route 0.0 0 13900 3.89 6342 1297 34234 3.67 9 1 2007 5111654 3442466741 9783442466740 0 <![CDATA[Die Krallen des Löwen: Meine Zeit mit einem afrikanischen Krieger]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5111654.Die_Krallen_des_L_wen_Meine_Zeit_mit_einem_afrikanischen_Krieger 0.0 0 13900 3.89 6342 1297 1170420 3.00 1 0 2008