Paperback, 256 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2003 by Harper Perennial.
5 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Travel
- 20th Century American Prose
- Biography / Autobiography
- Biography/Autobiography
- Medical - General
- Personal Memoirs
- Special Interest - Adventure
- Travel / Adventure