Faraway Places
by Tom Spanbauer
published
March 17th 2007
(first published 1993)
by Hawthorne Books
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binding
Paperback
isbn
0976631180
(isbn13: 9780976631187)
description
During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him t...more
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Read in December, 2002
This book is Tom's first book he wrote in 1988 when he was dirt poor living on East 5th Street. It confronts the racism of his home town and his life. It is an intense book, as all his books tend to be. It was just reissued with a preface and a foreward and when it is reissued will have another preface. He was in Seattle to read from his reissue and read the new preface. He did not change the book at all, it is a child in the world and stands as he wrote it, including the word nigger. The prefac...more
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Read in April, 2008
This is Tom Spanbauer's first book and they have just re-released it with a new intro by him. I'm not sure if giving it a new cover and a new introduction is worth spending the $15 all over again but since I'm a totally sucker for Spanbauer I couldn't help myself. And if any Portlanders are interested he is doing a reading a Powells on Wed. April 23rd. And for those of you who decided it was a good idea to leave Portland (ahem, Five) then you have to miss the most wonderful Tom Spanbauer doing h...more
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Read in March, 2008
This is a good little novella, and it's protagonist is a proto version of William of Heaven, the much more developed protagonist of "The City of Shy Hunters."
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I like this version especially because of the background info in the introduction and preface.
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