O the Clear Moment

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ISBN: 9781582435299

Ed McClanahan

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Counterpoint
18 August 2009

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

In this enormously appealing ""implied autobiography,"" Merry Prankster Ed McClanahan has assembled a gathering of what he calls ""coming-of-age to coming-of-old-age"" stories that are both quirky and cutting, hilarious and lyrical, all told in the inimitable voice of one of his generation's best southern chroniclers of American life.

The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with affectionate and precise detail. There's the summer he spends on a road crew in Yosemite National Park, striving (with ever-decreasing degrees of success) to be faithful to his college sweetheart back home. There's the McClanavan-the '68 VW Microbus that took McClanahan and his new bride on a 14,000-mile trek in search of honky-tonks. There's the 1969 ""peace"" demonstration at Stanford University that was less a revolution than a traffic jam.

McClanahan and his stories come alive as American souvenirs, enchanting readers with his signature prose in this stunning piece of ""memoirabilia.""

By: Ed McClanahan
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 178g
ISBN: 9781582435299
ISBN 10: 1582435294
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 18 August 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ed McClanahan, a native of northeastern Kentucky, is the author of several books, including The Natural Man and Famous People I Have Known. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, two Yaddo fellowships, and an Al Smith Fellowship. He has taught at Oregon State University, Stanford, the University of Kentucky, the University of Montana, and Northern Kentucky University. He lives in Kentucky with his wife.

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Mr. McClanahan makes us laugh with his recollections of the innocent beginnings of the 1960s, before the times began a-changing . . . and that laughter is a value all by itself.

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