false 48091 11 When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absent-minded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France in World War II, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books published in sixteen languages around the world and often on bestseller lists. In this wry and whimsical memoir, Hillerman offers frequent backward glances at where he found ideas for the plots of his books and the characters that inhabit them. We get a good-natured trip through hard times in college, an infantry career in which he "rose twice to Private First Class" and also won a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart and, afterward, work as truck driver, chain dragger, journalist, professor, and "doer of undignified deeds" for two university presidents. All this is colored by his love affair (now in its fifty-fourth year) with Marie, which involved raising six children, most of them adopted. 2990351 2001 Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir total:84|5:0|4:2|3:1|2:1|1:1| 84 321 125 16 3 1 false false Sun Nov 16 17:14:11 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 28 18:54:02 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 16 17:14:11 -0800 2008 Seldom Disappointed a try, and I was seldom disappointed in it.

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