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Happy Vagrancy - Essays from an Easy Chair (Paperback)
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Happy Vagrancy - Essays from an Easy Chair (Paperback)
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The essays in Sam Pickering's new collection sing with thoughtful
observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether
attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wander ing
the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling through Nova
Scotia, Pickering is able to work a quotation, insight, or
reminiscence into almost every page. His collection sparks with
copious observations from other writers and books that he's
devoured through the years. One of the many joys in Happy Vagrancy
is finding a new author or essay hiding in the deep foliage of
Pickering's prose. He delivers his insights with humor, wit, and a
keen eye for the ordinary wonders that surround us. Many of the
essays touch on death and the dying, and nothing escapes
description and fascination whether profound or seemingly less so:
the death of a dear friend or two fledgling cardinals blown from a
nest in the backyard and now covered with "periwinkle at the corner
of the yard." During a walk down a country lane, the names of
flowers, birds, and bugs fill the page. Even in a meadow buzzing
with life, there are reminders of our mortality and brief light too
soon gone-and they remind us to read, think, and live with gusto
and love.
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