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Local Wonders audiobook

  • By: Ted Kooser
  • Narrator: Ted Kooser
  • Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
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Local Wonders Audiobook Summary

Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska, an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention, including memories of his grandmother’s cooking. Kooser also reminds us that the closing of local schools, thoughtless county weed control, and irresponsible housing development destroy more than just the view.

What makes life meaningful for Kooser are the ways in which his neighbors care for one another and how an afternoon walking with an old dog, baking a pie, or decorating the house for Christmas can summon memories of his Iowa childhood.

This writer sees the extraordinary within the ordinary, the deep beneath the shallow, and the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.

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Local Wonders Audiobook Narrator

Ted Kooser is the narrator of Local Wonders audiobook that was written by Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser is a poet, essayist, and a Presidential Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as the US poet laureate from 2004 to 2006, and his book Delights & Shadows won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He lives in Nebraska with his family.

About the Author(s) of Local Wonders

Ted Kooser is the author of Local Wonders

Local Wonders Full Details

Narrator Ted Kooser
Length 6 hours 21 minutes
Author Ted Kooser
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date April 24, 2024
ISBN 9781481552417

Subjects

The publisher of the Local Wonders is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Travel, Essays & Travelogues

Additional info

The publisher of the Local Wonders is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781481552417.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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