These
vivid sketches of small-town America in another era and of Mr. Hall's eccentric
and marvelous family have been collected from his popular newspaper column, "A
Brookline Boyhood." They are so rooted in place and time that they uncannily evoke
the reader's own past. Award-winning southern novelist and poet Fred Chappell
calls this a "wonderfully enjoyable book of reminiscences and speculations. Small
Town Tales preserves memories the way happy farmwives preserve peaches and strawberries.
The results are equally wholesome and delicious. Sidney Hall's work is a rare
treat!" Story of the Week
"Sidney
Hall, Jr. is one of those thoughtful, intimate writers you become friends with
instantly. His wonderful Small Town Tales remembers the Sixties, not as the turbulent
decade that got into the history books, but as a time of gentle wonder for a boy
coming of age in what already seems - change coming so fast now - a vanished paradise."
-W.D. Wetherell
"Sidney
Hall, Jr. proves that real family values transcend the political cliche. Small
Town Tales is . . . a genuine record of a fine way to raise children, be a family,
live a life. It's nostalgia with a twist." -Rebecca Rule
"...
[a] deeply moving account of growing up...Hall's philosophical, multi-layered
insights transcend geography. They have a universal appeal." Jack Barnes,
Columnist
"Funny
stories...by a poet of some distinction." Geoffrey Elan, Yankee Magazine
"A
door on childhood." Ralph Jimenez, Boston Sunday Globe
"In
his book, Small Town Tales, A Brookline Boyhood, Hall has created a memorial to
childhood and small town living in general, and to his father in specific. . .
a touching paean on the poignancy of life, death, and the ethereal essences that
survive even as we become adults... The book is as light or as heavy as you want
it to be. Hall's prose is poetic and complex, yet makes for easy reading. You
could pick up one of these three-page essays a day, or sit down and read the whole
book in less than two hours." Christine Halvorson, The Monadnock Ledger
Some of our favorite New Hampshire writers from
outside our catalogue.
These
vivid sketches of small-town America in another era and of Mr. Hall's eccentric
and marvelous family have been collected from his popular newspaper column, "A
Brookline Boyhood." They are so rooted in place and time that they uncannily evoke
the reader's own past. Award-winning southern novelist and poet Fred Chappell
calls this a "wonderfully enjoyable book of reminiscences and speculations. Small
Town Tales preserves memories the way happy farmwives preserve peaches and strawberries.
The results are equally wholesome and delicious. Sidney Hall's work is a rare
treat!" Story of the Week
