Slow road home
Fred First
A collection of essays reflecting on the author's life and sense of place along Goose Creek in Floyd County, Virginia. The book is a companion to First's blog Fragments from Floyd.
Read Time: ~6.9 hr
I Thought My Father Was God
by edited and introduced by Paul Auster (2002)
About this book
In 1999, Paul Auster and National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered programme asked listeners to send in true stories, to be read on-air as part of the National Story Project. The response was overwhelming : everyone, it seemed, had a story to tell. *True Tales of American Life* gathers 180 of these stories in one extraordinary volume.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreI Thought My Father Was God Lead Character
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