The Presence of Things Past

The Presence of Things PastAuthor: John Taylor ISBN: 9781586541064 Publisher: Story Line Press Year first published: 04 Jan 2021 Pages: 106 Format: Paperback softback Collecting stories from John Taylor's upbringing in Des Moines, these "charming evocations of a Midwestern childhood" (as the French film director Louis Malle called them), recall an "average" neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s. The death of the author's mother gives rise to these sensitive reminiscences, which

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Michael Schumacher reveals with compassion and insight both the depths of Clapton's sorrow and the roots of his remarkable musical power

landscape and urban history

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a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood and a paraplegic artist whose recovery goes beyond the miraculous