The One-Room Schoolhouse

Stories About the Boys

Jim Heynen

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Vintage Books
30 August 1994

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

In more than one hundred perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, and always surprising stories, Jim Heynen displays his mastery of country wisdom, speech, and behavior as he reveals life in a Midwest where electricity is a magical novelty and cities a distant rumor. These are tales of farmboys finding their way, contending with grown-ups, city kids, birth, death, bats, rats, skunks, and even mean ponies. Or choosing between corncobs and peach tissues, hurling rotten eggs, getting in trouble, helping out, and trying to conceive of the mountains and oceans and forests they've never seen. Their adventures are an education inthe natural world, as well as an aknowledgment of what is both common and strange in human nature. Whether true of just funny, sad or even magical, The One-Room Schoolhouse is indelibly American.

By: Jim Heynen
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9780679747697
ISBN 10: 0679747699
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 August 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jim Heynen lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and teaches at St. Olaf's College in Northfield.

Reviews for The One-Room Schoolhouse: Stories About the Boys

Jim Heynen knows the secret passage that lets him into the minds of young country boys...as they encounter the realities of a distinctive way of life--isolated, harshly beautiful--that is vanishing from the American scene. -- Chicago Tribune In language that's both poignant and simple, these hundred tales present an intimate, frank, and beautifully detailed portrait of rural life. -- Seattle Times Sharply written...emotionally rich...[a] sublime gem. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer