Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06VXWGP6W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 427 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Michael Perry is a humorist, radio host, songwriter, and the New York Times bestselling author of several nonfiction books, including Visiting Tom and Population: 485, as well as a novel, The Jesus Cow. He lives in northern Wisconsin with his family and can be found online at sneezingcow.
Perry "matriculated as a barn-booted bumpkin who still marks a second-place finish in the sixth-grade spelling bee as an intellectual pinnacle and once said hello to Merle Haggard on a golf cart."Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subj
Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home among the chickens.” (Seattle Times on Coop)“Drop whatever you are doing and sit down to read Michael Perry’s Visiting Tom….Perry is a craftsman of the highest order….When you go back to doing what you were doing when you picked up this book, you might just see your world with a broader, more humane perspective.” (New York Journal of Books on Visiting Tom)“A delightfully quirky account of a year in a mid-American life spent restoring a 1951 International Harvester, cultivating a garden, an