Make It Good : The Stories In My Early Life
Overview
"I decided early on in embarking on this book," says the novelist and poet Barry Sheinkopf, "that
I wanted to avoid mere chatter and to ask of every chapter in it, 'But so what? What did it mean to me, and what will it mean to a reader?' If I couldn't answer the first question, the second wouldn't be worth asking. The result may seem a patchwork. Some people who spent a lot of time with me and knew me well don't appear in it at all; others, whom I came to know only glacingly, do. But this is, for better or worse, a tale of aha moments that together offer the whole of what I think my life taught me in my early years. I offer it for the amusement and entertainment of my readers, of whom
I hope my grandson may be one. But who knows--and so what if he isn't?"
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781946989109
- ISBN-10: 194698910X
- Publisher: Full Court Press
- Publish Date: February 2018
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
- Page Count: 188
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