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An original and searching memoir from “one of America’s finest essayists” (Phillip Lopate) When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—“the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything.” He writes, “The... read more
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- Mama
- Sandra
- Glenn
- Elizabeth
- Dr. King
- Rusty
- Jeremiah Pond
- Minnie
- Grandpa Solomon
- Scott
- Joe Burns
- Mrs. Mcclure
- Vicki May Langston
- Paul
- Brown
- Mr. Henn
- Mrs. Jackson
- Mrs. Kurtz
- Jesse
- Hal
- Knipe
- Mr. Sanders
- Mr. Hammond
- Marty
- Lake Charles
- George Fox
- Mr. Fritz
- Kennedy
- Lawrence
- Eva
- Morse
- Laura
- David
- Einstein
- Tommy
- Bob
- Mr. Sims
- Thoreau
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WHEN MY FATHER wrapped me in his arms and carried me onto the screened porch of our farmhouse in Tennessee during a thunderstorm, he said nothing about the booming and blowing, merely hummed a tune, a sound I confused with the purr of the rain.
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- Scott R. Sanders (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: North Point Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0865476934
Page Count: 336
Publisher: North Point Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0865476934
Page Count: 336
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- Dewey: 813.54
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