Farm on Nippersink Creek: Stories from a Midwestern Childhood by Jim May
	List Price:   $14.95 Unit Price:   $11.96 You Save:   $2.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0874834465 ISBN-13:   9780874834468 Publisher:   NBN; August House Publishers Series:   American Storytelling Ser. Category:   Middle School Pub. Date:   March 1995 Pages:   200 Format:   Trade Paper Ages:   11 and UP Grades:   6 and up
Subjects
COUNTRY LIFE ILLINOIS_BIOGRAPHY
Description/Notes
May captures the essence of rural life in stories from his hometown of Spring Grove, Illinois. Likened by critics to Garrison Keillor only more deliberate and elegiac Jim May writes the stories of his youth, growing up in the rural Midwest between the Truman and the JFK eras, where trading stories was as common as trading horses, and frequently required the same skills. Neighboring, as his mother called it, was part of the social fabric. These 18 poignant and humorous stories of life's joys and trials told with the freshness of youth, yet tempered with the wisdom of age evoke a simpler time in our nation's history without romanticizing its inherent hardships.