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This Death by Drowning
This Death by Drowning
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The first volume in William Kloefkorn's four-part memoir which, when completed, will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. This Death by Drowning is a memoir with a difference?an artfully assembled collection of reminiscences, each having something to do with water. The book's epigraph, from Norman Maclean's A Ri... more », proclaims, "I am haunted by waters." So?and in most rewarding ways?is William Kloefkorn. The first chapter recalls the time when, at age six, the author "came within one gulp of drowning" in a Kansas cow-pasture pond, only to be saved by his father. A later chapter recounts Kloefkorn's younger brother's near death by drowning a few years later; still another envisions the cycle of drought and torrential rains on his grandparents' Kansas farm. There are fanciful memories of the Loup and other Nebraska rivers, interlaced with Mark Twain's renderings of the Mississippi and John Neihardt's poetic descriptions of the Missouri. And there are stories of more recent times?a winter spent in a cabin on the Platte River, and an often amusing Caribbean cruise that Kloefkorn took with his wife. Throughout, Kloefkorn takes his memories for a walk, following each recollection into unexpected, fruitful byways. Along the way he pauses at larger themes?of nature, death, family, and renewal?that gradually gather irresistible force and authority. (11/13/2000)
Author:
The first volume in William Kloefkorn's four-part memoir which, when completed, will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. This Death by Drowning is a memoir with a difference?an artfully assembled collection of reminiscences, each having something to do with water. The book's epigraph, from Norman Maclean's A Ri... more », proclaims, "I am haunted by waters." So?and in most rewarding ways?is William Kloefkorn. The first chapter recalls the time when, at age six, the author "came within one gulp of drowning" in a Kansas cow-pasture pond, only to be saved by his father. A later chapter recounts Kloefkorn's younger brother's near death by drowning a few years later; still another envisions the cycle of drought and torrential rains on his grandparents' Kansas farm. There are fanciful memories of the Loup and other Nebraska rivers, interlaced with Mark Twain's renderings of the Mississippi and John Neihardt's poetic descriptions of the Missouri. And there are stories of more recent times?a winter spent in a cabin on the Platte River, and an often amusing Caribbean cruise that Kloefkorn took with his wife. Throughout, Kloefkorn takes his memories for a walk, following each recollection into unexpected, fruitful byways. Along the way he pauses at larger themes?of nature, death, family, and renewal?that gradually gather irresistible force and authority. (11/13/2000)
ISBN-13: 9780803277991
ISBN-10: 0803277997
Publication Date: 2/1/2001
Pages: 155
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 0803277997
Publication Date: 2/1/2001
Pages: 155
Rating: ?
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Publisher: Bison Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Arts & Literature >> Authors
- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Regional U.S. >> Midwest
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> British & Irish >> 20th Century
