Geoff Gehman
Auteur van The Kingdom of the Kid: Growing Up in the Long-Lost Hamptons (Excelsior Editions)
Over de Auteur
Geoff Gehman is a former arts writer for The Morning Call in Allen-town, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird: A Documentary in Letters of Eric Knight. He lives in Pennsylvania's. Northampton County and thinks about the long-lost Hamptons every day.
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Gehman, Geoff
- Officiële naam
- Gehman, Geoff
- Geboortedatum
- 1958
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Beroepen
- Writer, reporter
- Organisaties
- The Morning Call (newspaper), Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Besprekingen
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- Werken
- 2
- Leden
- 9
- Populariteit
- #968,587
- Waardering
- 5.0
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 3
If you have a particular point of view about memoirs, either for or against, try to forget it and pick up The Kingdom of the Kid, and just settle in for the ride.
This is more than a prosaic romp through childhood memories, it is a paean celebrating a child's-eye-view of life.
Gehman is a writer who likes to "linger over words," that's my kind of writer. His prose, his stories, his memories…sassy, salty and singular.
Gehman is a poet, too. Repeatedly, he offers lush insight into his industrious youth, his friendships with the young and the old, his affinity for the place, the "long-lost Hamptons" where Geoff and his pals spent the good old days.
He describes the scene as he observed mourners in the Wainscott Cemetery: "…I sat on my bike in the school parking lot, shaded by grand sycamores, and watched visitors treat the cemetery with reverence. They placed flowers by graves, prayed on their knees, cried on their backs. They stared at the sky, held séances in broad daylight, eavesdropped on eternity.
"Those pilgrims taught me the morality of mortality. Without asking anyone I learned to walk around the stones, to respect the dead as if they were alive."
In every chapter he offers another little piece of his heart.
Good reading. Real good.
Buy it here: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5733-the-kingdom-of-the-kid.aspx
Read more on my blog: http://barleyliterate.blogspot.com/2013/08/book-review-kingdom-of-kid.html… (meer)