Owls Head Revisited Jim Krosschell
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Along the coast of Maine, fame and fortune abound; the town of Owls Head has little of either. Its people occupy a gorgeous peninsula in Penobscot Bay but have raised only two-and-a-half tourist attractions. The businesses in town with multiple employees are the general store and two lobster wholesalers. The Town Comprehensive Plan modestly states, “There are no sidewalks in Owls Head.”
For nearly 20 years the author and family used their house in Owls Head as not much more than a vacation spa to recover from the stresses of suburban Massachusetts. But when he retired, with time to explore and think and write, he crossed some kind of line, into much more intimacy with the place. Owls Head is ordinary, except if you walk through its neighborhoods, on ocean shores and country lanes, on points of land, undeveloped woods and saltwater marshes, even through a couple of housing developments, and then Owls Head becomes the kind of place many may seek magically ordinary, a place of beauty and history, contradictions and community. Over the course of a year, the author visited anew, walking every lane and road and trail, even a few driveways, in town. The record of these modest walks became a book of discovery and enlightenment.
Owls Head Revisited Jim Krosschell
"Flash" writing, I have learned from the author, is now a term of art (literally) that means, apparently, a piece of prose based on a series of immediate reflections. I did not look up this definition; it emerged organically reading Jim Krosschell's remarkable book, The ink is hardly dry. Neither are my eyes. If you love nature, Maine, Thoreau (or any of the Transcendentalists or Romantics for that matter), dislike (hate, even) Facebook obsessions, Walmart, Tea Partyism, Calvin, property developers (of the McMansion school of design) but want an easy read over coffee at the breakfast table or on the patio (I did a simple chapter a day for just over a week) and a hip, witty, post-post-modern twist, this book is the bee's knees. Actually, let me revisit that first sentence and paraphrase Robertson Davies, whom I once had the honor to hear give a talk at the Library of Congress. He had been invited, inevitably, to lecture on Canadian literature, and the white-bearded wonder's punch line, which I'm sure he used on more than one occasion, was "There's no such thing; there's only bad Canadian literature." And he proceeded to read a hilarious example of the latter that he pretended to have written on the plane from Toronto. Jim's is simply an example of good English literature. Hold your irony and your nose if you must, and buy it online.Product details
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Owls Head Revisited Jim Krosschell Reviews
I loved this book. I read it practically at one sitting, and started underlining particularly well-chosen sentences part-way through, wishing that I had started sooner. I like the way the author's mind works. I bet that E.B. White would have liked it too.
This is a wonderful book that takes one along on a series of walks through this Maine town. In addition to the scenery we learn about the inhabitants over the centuries and a reminder that we are merely the caretakers.
One suggestion is to include a map. I used Google Maps.
"Flash" writing, I have learned from the author, is now a term of art (literally) that means, apparently, a piece of prose based on a series of immediate reflections. I did not look up this definition; it emerged organically reading Jim Krosschell's remarkable book, The ink is hardly dry. Neither are my eyes. If you love nature, Maine, Thoreau (or any of the Transcendentalists or Romantics for that matter), dislike (hate, even) Facebook obsessions, Walmart, Tea Partyism, Calvin, property developers (of the McMansion school of design) but want an easy read over coffee at the breakfast table or on the patio (I did a simple chapter a day for just over a week) and a hip, witty, post-post-modern twist, this book is the bee's knees. Actually, let me revisit that first sentence and paraphrase Robertson Davies, whom I once had the honor to hear give a talk at the Library of Congress. He had been invited, inevitably, to lecture on Canadian literature, and the white-bearded wonder's punch line, which I'm sure he used on more than one occasion, was "There's no such thing; there's only bad Canadian literature." And he proceeded to read a hilarious example of the latter that he pretended to have written on the plane from Toronto. Jim's is simply an example of good English literature. Hold your irony and your nose if you must, and buy it online.
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