First Job
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01HMXRX7K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 485 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Everyone has a first job, and with rare storytelling power and emotions laid bare, Rinker Buck brings back just how it felt.. The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Oregon Trail, about a special time in every young adult’s life—the first “real” job out of college.Ask Rinker Buck about his first job, and you’ll get the enchanting and engaging account that not only captures the experience of being a “twenty-two-year-old with the maxed-out brain,” but also evokes a special time and place: the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts in the early 1970s. First jobs are our baptism into the real world, our immersion in to the real
Frequently hilarious and never less than compelling, this spirited narrative captures the pitch of a moment (the mid '70s), the rhythms of work (at at legendary small-town paper), and the full-body rush that accompanies the discovery of one's vocation." —Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire"Buck is a virtuoso storyteller in a very American vein." —Philip Lopate. Buck has done the impossible here: he's written a thoroughly entertaining, extremely funny, embarrassingly honest true story. Thompson writ
He lives in northwest Connecticut. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award, and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. He is the author of The Oregon Trail as well as the acclaimed memoirs Flight of Passage and First Job. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Life, and many other publications, and his work