by John T. Price
DeCapo Press / Perseus Books Group
Memoir / Essays
Hardcover $25.00
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81605-5, ISBN-10: 0-306-81605-9
MBA Bookseller Information
A number of MBA bookstores have been sent reading copies of MAN KILLED BY PHEASANT AND OTHER KINSHIPS, courtesy of Da Capo Press/Perseus Books and MBA. MBA and the publisher would love to have your comments, reviews, and praise for this fascinating book. PLease send them to us so we can share your endorsements with your fellow MBA booksellers and with your customers!
MAN KILLED BY PHEASANT AND OTHER KINSHIPS and John Price’s recent book Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands are excellent choices for reading groups. (See the Q&A with the Author below for discussion topic ideas.)
Author John T. Price may be available for in-store event and for phone-ins to your store’s book clubs and reading groups. If you would like to set up an event or phone conference call, please contact Lissa Warren at Da Capo Press for assistance and guidelines: lissa.warren@perseusbooks.com, or 617-252-5212.
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About the Book
“John Price’s memoir is a powerful inquiry into what it means to be a Midwesterner. In a style that replicates the laconic surface and passionate undercurrents of that region, he has fashioned not only a personal story, but a powerful evocation of the land and its European immigrant families.”
- Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist’s Daughter“John Price writes with exceptional lucidity, humor, and wisdom about his unexceptional– and exemplary-American life. I spent my own youth in this very region, and I don’t know a better or more charming prose distillation of its sweet, homely beauty and melancholy. This is a perfect nonfiction companion to the stories of Garrison Keillor and the movies of Alexander Payne.”
- Kurt Andersen, author of Heyday
Grounded in place in the great grasslands of the Midwest, MAN KILLED BY PHEASANT is not only a powerful memoir, but one that knows no boundaries. Kinship is the thread that runs throughout, with creatures in Price’s backyard and in the wild, with Swedish ancestors, with neighbors, with the Midwest prairies, and with his wife and children. Often smiling at the absurdities of ordinary life, and at other moments resonant with both joy and sorrow, MAN KILLED BY PHEASANT bears poignant witness to the bonds that link us all. It “will resonate not only with those of us who have Midwestern roots, but with anyone who relishes a walk in the woods or a witty turn of phrase. Savor this book. It’s a delight.” – Lisa Renstrom, former President of the Sierra Club
John T. Price, author of Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands, is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work, deeply rooted in the Midwest is, like that of Edward Abbey or Aldo Leopold, tied to place yet elevated by experience that transcends the region. AProfessor of English at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, he lives with his wife, Stephanie, and two young sons in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
