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Never in a hurry : essays on people and places / Naomi Shihab Nye.
From potluck suppers to junkets to exotic locales, Nye looks at the importance of strangers in our lives. This collection of autobiographical essays on a variety of subjects reflects the people & places encountered by the author, a Palestinian American married to a Swedish American who has lived most of her life in San Antonio, Texas.
Record details
- ISBN: 1570030820 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781570030826 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Growing -- Newcomers in a Troubled Land -- The Cookies -- Commerce -- Three Pokes of a Thistle -- Thank You in Arabic -- One Village -- Local Hospitality -- Grazing -- Roses for Lubbock -- Camel Like Only Camel -- The Rattle of Wheels toward the Rooms of the New Mothers -- Nineties -- David Crockett's Other Life -- Favorite Cleaners, San Antonio -- Enigma -- My Life with Medicine -- Speaking Arabic -- Maintenance -- Tulips -- Pablo Tamayo -- The World and All Its Teeth -- Marie -- Keys -- Tomorrow We Smile -- Field Trip -- Neighborhood Quartet in a Minor Key -- Home Address -- Monumental -- Bread -- Broken Clock -- Poetry -- Banned Poem -- Women of the West -- Used Cars on Oahu -- Mint Snowball -- White Coals -- Talk, Talk, Talk -- One Moment on Top of the Earth. |
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| Subject: | Short stories. Essays > United States. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 814.54 NYE (Text) | 000098950 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Never in a Hurry : Essays on People and Places
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Never in a Hurry : Essays on People and Places
In "Never in a Hurry the poet Naomi Shihab Nye" resists the American tendency to "leave toward places whenn we barely have time enough to get there." Instaed she travels the world at an observant pace, talking to strangers and introducing readers to an endearing assemblage of great-great-aunts, eccentric neighbors, Filipina faith healers, dry-cleaning proprietors, hitchhikers, and other quirky characters, some of whom she met just once. As inviting and inventive as her poems, Nye's insightful essays spill forth from the collexction with the spontaneity of stories spoken across a kitchen table.
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