A Step from Death A Memoir Author:Larry Woiwode In this deeply affecting memoir, Larry Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. With beautiful language and a poet?s sensibility, Woiwode begins his story by relating a near-death experience with a malfunctioning hay baler?the kind of mistake that can kill a novice farmer. This episode launches a delicately woven series of me... more »mories, from snippets of Woiwode?s days in New York as a young writer working with the late great William Maxwell, to his days as a young father, husband, and teacher trying to scrape enough together to buy a ranch in western North Dakota, and finally to the prospect of an empty nest and the step from death that he finds rapidly approaching.« less
ISBN-13: 9781582434698 ISBN-10: 1582434697 Publication Date: 2/17/2009 Pages:288 Edition:First Trade Paper Ed Rating: