02751cam a2200337 4500 531758290 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496211446 1496211448 B00BIH50X6 Amazon 31f82d54-25d1-4d23-ace1-5e34a16a822b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1236963 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Salisbury, Ralph. So Far, So Good [Libby]. Nebraska Paperback, 2020. Personal Memoirs. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 568kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness. Does he remember this? Or remember being told? Regardless, he feels it, and will feel it again, bomb bay wind buffeting his eighteen-year-old body a mile above an old volcano's jagged debris, and yet again, staring at photos of Korean orphans, huddled homeless in a blizzard after a bombing in which, at twenty-five, he'd refused an order to join. It is through such prisms of the past that Ralph Salisbury's life unfolds, a life that, eighty years in the making, is also the life of the twentieth century. Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, So Far, So Good is a sometimes strange, sometimes lyrical, and often humorous attempt by an inveterate storyteller to recount "just things as they were." The survivor of a lightning strike, car and plane mishaps, explosions, bullets, a heart attack, cancer, and other human afflictions, Salisbury wonders: "Why should anyone read this?" The book itself resoundingly answers this question not merely with its sheer eventfulness but also in the prodigious telling. Salisbury takes us from abject poverty in rural Iowa during the Great Depression, with a half Cherokee father and an Irish American mother, through war and peace and protest to the freedom and solace of university life; and it is in the end (so far) so good.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=31f82d54-25d1-4d23-ace1-5e34a16a822b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=31f82d54-25d1-4d23-ace1-5e34a16a822b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=31f82d54-25d1-4d23-ace1-5e34a16a822b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)