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- EditoreChelsea Green Pub Co
- Data di pubblicazione2000
- ISBN 10 1890132675
- ISBN 13 9781890132675
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine225
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks and underlining. 225 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An unvarnished look at the frustrations, hazards and rewards of building a house, this journal doubles as a search for self. Procter, who died in 1998 at age 55, was a carpenter, novelist, essayist, performance artist, actor and TV producer. A Harvard graduate from an old Boston family "saturated with New England Puritanism," he rode the countercultural wave to California in 1968, where he remained until he moved to Oregon in 1991. In this diary of a seven-month house-building project (1994-1995), Procter, a recovered alcoholic and drug addict, meditates and recites prayers while nailing down particleboard and learning self-acceptance and humility as "a $10-an-hour grunt carpenter." Along with a candid account of the on-the-job obstacles he has faced--a bad back, bouts of depression, fear of heights, grinding routine, a vandal who leaves his graffiti signature--much of the drama comes from the friction among the members of his construction crew. Procter's boss, Vern, is a dour Vietnam veteran, suspicious of the ex-hippie author. Bud, Vern's son, is surly and attends to his year-old daughter undergoing cancer chemotherapy. Brian, Procter's co-worker and sometime ally, is macho, bossy, and talks and sings incessantly. Somehow, the house--built alongside a golf course with Plexiglas shields to protect windows from stray balls--takes shape, despite screwups, accidents and occasional disputes with the client, an acupuncturist and painter. This self-absorbed journal convincingly describes work as an attempt to achieve a state of flow, a rare balance between materials, tools, mind, heart and the task at hand. Codice articolo 200290
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.29. Codice articolo Q-1890132675
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