Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
Bill Henderson
(Author)
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Description
Bill Henderson had an epiphany one day after buying a plot of land high atop a hill in Maine overlooking the sea: why not build a tower "for no reason"? For this lapsed Presbyterian, it all made sense. With his spiritual life in neutral, his marriage struggling, his daughter growing up, a tower was no less appropriate than, say, hiring a shrink or buying a fast car. Ignoring the fact that he knew little about construction, and armed only with a hammer, a handsaw, a tri-square, a tape measure, and a rope, he set about erecting a modest tower upon his not-so-modest hill. Tower is Henderson's down-to-earth study of a sky-high subject that celebrates the dreamer in all of us.
Product Details
Price
$15.00
$13.95
Publisher
Pushcart Press
Publish Date
September 17, 2004
Pages
220
Dimensions
4.54 X 7.26 X 0.65 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781888889383
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About the Author
Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore - "the world's smallest bookstore."
Reviews
Wonderfully engaging...makes you want to pick up a hammer and nails and get to work!--George Plimpton
[An] endearing, quixotic, vulnerable book about building a tower to save his life.--Edward Hoagland
A strange and fascinating book.--Thomas Curwen "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
Perhaps the gentlest, sweetest, most introspective and humbling tower achievement in the history of towering achievements.--Bill Roorbach "Newsday"
[The] quirkiest, most rambling and yet most charming self-help book that will appear this year.-- "Publishers Weekly"
[An] endearing, quixotic, vulnerable book about building a tower to save his life.--Edward Hoagland
A strange and fascinating book.--Thomas Curwen "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
Perhaps the gentlest, sweetest, most introspective and humbling tower achievement in the history of towering achievements.--Bill Roorbach "Newsday"
[The] quirkiest, most rambling and yet most charming self-help book that will appear this year.-- "Publishers Weekly"
