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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (P.S.)

by Michael Perry

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Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, Population: 485 is a comic and sometimes heartbreaking true tale leavened with quieter meditations on an overlooked America.

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"Swells with unadorned heroism. He's the real thing." USA Today

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"This is a quietly devastating book — intimate and disarming and lovely." Esquire

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"In the best tradition of books that pay quiet homage to community servicy, place, and the men and women who live there. A perfectly pitched celebration of small-town life." Kirkus Reviews

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About the Author

Michael Perry is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Population: 485 in addition to the essay collection Off Main Street. He lives in Wisconsin.

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Perfectly sums up small-town life -- coping with isolation, family, community and figuring out where you belong.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780061363504

Author:

Perry, Michael

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Subject:

Medical - General

Subject:

Special Interest - Adventure

Subject:

Adventure

Subject:

Essays & Travelogues

Subject:

Emergency medical technicians

Subject:

Social life and customs

Subject:

Perry, Michael

Subject:

Volunteer fire fighters - Wisconsin -

Subject:

Travel Writing-General

Copyright:

2007

Edition Description:

Trade PB

Series:

P.S.

Publication Date:

20070731

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

280

Dimensions:

7.96x5.32x.65 in. .46 lbs.

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Product details 280 pages Harper Perennial - 2011-07-08 English 9780061363504 Reviews:

"Review" by USA Today, "Swells with unadorned heroism. He's the real thing."

"Review" by Esquire, "This is a quietly devastating book — intimate and disarming and lovely."

"Review" by Kirkus Reviews, "In the best tradition of books that pay quiet homage to community servicy, place, and the men and women who live there. A perfectly pitched celebration of small-town life."