Weight of WinterSourcebooks, Inc., 6 Μαΐ 2014 - 496 σελίδες "Sharp stuff...Her sentences are powerful and unique as snowflakes."-New York Times Welcome to Mattagash, Maine, a town where everyone's personal lives are as entwined as their family trees. On the day of the first snowfall, the residents brace themselves for the long winter ahead. Mere survival will be hard; dealing with each other is another story. As winter settles in, various Mattagashians careen from conundrum to conundrum, trying to save dying small businesses, caring for crabby loved ones, and cruising through town, stirring up gossip any way they can get it. Through it all, 107-year old Mathilda Fennelson reflects on her life as the town's oldest resident, born the year Mattagash was founded. Through her dreams and memories, she reveals the scrappy, strange, and earnest pioneer history of these people weighed down by their own existence. At once funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, The Weight of Winter weaves together the lives of Mattagash's residents as they struggle to survive another winter with their quirky neighbors and the endless pressure of their collective history. |
Περιεχόμενα
Not Just the Ground Is Barren | 1 |
Big Bucks in the Lottery | 13 |
Elvis Comes Forth at Radio Shack | 29 |
The Downhill Slide into Pine Valley | 45 |
Postscript from Pine Valley | 67 |
Lynn Stays out of the Mattagash River | 75 |
Elvis as Everyman | 87 |
The Pilgrims Gather at the Tabard | 101 |
The Weight of Winters Past | 261 |
Conrad Annoys Pike | 273 |
Miles Standish Visits Tanya | 287 |
To Hell with Liberté Egalité Fraternité | 301 |
The Miranda Act | 319 |
Hands over Hearts | 337 |
HALT | 351 |
Mattagash Is OffBroadway | 369 |
Meeting at Twenty Below | 125 |
Purple Trains in Northern Maine | 139 |
The Wife of Mattagashs Prologue | 147 |
Fires in the Head | 161 |
Its Carpe Diem for Pike | 175 |
No Expectations for Amy Joy | 189 |
Pitfalls of the Wish Book | 203 |
The ABCs of Reconciliation | 213 |
The Flash of White Gloves | 225 |
The Great Pyramid as a Tavern | 237 |
The First Supper | 247 |
The Jaws of Mattagash | 389 |
Conrad Learns to Leap | 399 |
The Mayflower as a Beer Joint | 409 |
Down the YellowTiled Road | 419 |
A Return to Mattagash Brook | 433 |
The Last Bus to Canterbury | 439 |
Life in Anyones Town | 459 |
An Excerpt from A Year After Henry | 475 |
About the Author | 492 |
Back Cover | 493 |