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Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Philip SimmonsPublish date:2003-04-29Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:BantamISBN-13:9780553381580ISBN-10:055338158XUPC:9780553381580Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Educators, Religious, Death, Grief, BereavementSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCAPEYJSG0

Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life

Now I find myself in late August, with the nights cool and the crickets thick in the fields. Already the first blighted leaves glow scarlet on the red maples. It's a season of fullness and sweet longings made sweeter now by the fact that I can't be sure I'll see this time of the year again....
-- from Learning to Fall

Philip Simmons was just thirty-five years old in 1993 when he learned that he had...


Language:EnglishPublisher:BantamISBN-13:9780553381580ISBN-10:055338158XUPC:9780553381580Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Educators, Religious, Death, Grief, BereavementSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCAPEYJSG0
Philip Simmons is associate professor of English at Lake Forest College in Illinois, where he taught literature and creative writing for nine years before being disabled. His literary scholarship has been published widely and his short fiction has appeared in Playboy, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, and the Massachusetts Review, among other magazines. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two...
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