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Lost in West Texas (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Discovery Miles 3 850
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Lost in West Texas (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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List price R436
Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
You Save R51 (12%)
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"I want to hear about such folks as my father and how he knows how
to make cement, not by recipe, but by something in his bones. I
want to hear how my grandfather learned to plow a straight furrow
and why even older men always called him Mister. I want to know all
of the reasons why, those years ago, my mother cried when the
tomatoes in her garden twisted and died."
Trying to find out such things, Jim Corder leads us through the
ravines of the Croton Breaks, around to the back side of the Double
Mountains, and through the streets of Jayton and Spur, as they are
and as they used to be. He takes us right up to gaze at the Big
Rock Candy Mountain, which, however, he can't tell us how to find
since the day in 1937 when the State Highway Department made it
into gravel. Fort Concho and Fort Phantom Hill, outhouses and feed
mills, Col. Ranald Mackenzie and a lone Comanche brave, high school
athletes and desperately lonely teachers, all come under his
scrutiny and are hauntingly considered for their stories, their
limitations, and the sense of place they afford.
Nostalgia, wonderment, and a healthy and imaginative provincialism
color the pages of this book, which is well illustrated with the
author's own pen-and-ink sketches of the places and things he
remembers. The vibrantly concrete details of daily existence in a
bygone time in a remote and desolate area of Texas are startlingly
juxtaposed with philosophical musings about the limitations all of
us face in comprehending even that little bit of life we live. "Can
poetry, or water, be found in West Texas?" Corder asks at one
point. His answer--if such it be--makes it worth our getting lost
with him in this journey of the heart and mind.
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