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Visiting Tom Acclaimed author Perry returns with the tale of Tom Hartwig, an old-timer best known locally for building and firing homemade cannons. Famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, Tom has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to the days of his prize Model A. Full description
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"Plunges into the soul of the American heartland. While Foxfire fans will relish the emphasis on forgotten crafts and tools, others will appreciate Perry's gift as a bucolic wordsmith, etching a sensitive portrait of vanishing country life where 'the light of a firefly is the size of a teardrop.'"--Publishers Weekly
"Funnier than Keillor."--"MinnPost"
""Visiting Tom" is more than just a whimsical portrait of a unique character. It's a meditation on modernity and self-reliance that sneaks up on you with its unexpected depth."--"Capital Times"
"[Perry] is a sharp and empathetic observer."--"Journal Sentinel"
"In "Visiting Tom", a story that melds Perry's unique humor with notes of Garrison Keillor and Billy Bryson, the elderly man's tenderness and character jump off the page as he shares his thoughts on life and love."--"Express Milwaukee"
"Charming and humorous."--"Booklist"
"In "Visiting Tom," a story that melds Perry's unique humor with notes of Garrison Keillor and Billy Bryson, the elderly man's tenderness and character jump off the page as he shares his thoughts on life and love."--"Express Milwaukee"
Warmhearted .engaging .down-to-earth and genuine. --"Kirkus Reviews""
Funnier than Keillor. --"MinnPost""
"Visiting Tom" is more than just a whimsical portrait of a unique character. It s a meditation on modernity and self-reliance that sneaks up on you with its unexpected depth. --"Capital Times""
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"Funnier than Keillor."--"MinnPost"
""Visiting Tom" is more than just a whimsical portrait of a unique character. It's a meditation on modernity and self-reliance that sneaks up on you with its unexpected depth."--"Capital Times"
"[Perry] is a sharp and empathetic observer."--"Journal Sentinel"
"In "Visiting Tom", a story that melds Perry's unique humor with notes of Garrison Keillor and Billy Bryson, the elderly man's tenderness and character jump off the page as he shares his thoughts on life and love."--"Express Milwaukee"
"Charming and humorous."--"Booklist"
"In "Visiting Tom," a story that melds Perry's unique humor with notes of Garrison Keillor and Billy Bryson, the elderly man's tenderness and character jump off the page as he shares his thoughts on life and love."--"Express Milwaukee"
Warmhearted .engaging .down-to-earth and genuine. --"Kirkus Reviews""
Funnier than Keillor. --"MinnPost""
"Visiting Tom" is more than just a whimsical portrait of a unique character. It s a meditation on modernity and self-reliance that sneaks up on you with its unexpected depth. --"Capital Times""
From the acclaimed author of Coop and Population: 485 comes a portrait of a unique individual and a dedicated way of life.
What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit--often with his young daughters in tow--author Michael Perry finds out.
Toiling in his shop, Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and--now and then--batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives. Tom, who is approaching his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, and is famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has stories dating back to the days of his prize Model A and an antiauthoritarian streak refreshed daily by the interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps more than eight million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man's equanimity and ultimately--when he and Perry converse as husbands and the fathers of daughters--unvarnished tenderness.
"PERRY'S the real thing." --USA Today
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