Stay Here With Me: A Memoir
by Robert Olmstead
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Author: Robert OlmsteadEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04
ISBN: 0805041621
Number of pages: 207
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Book Reviews of Stay Here With Me: A Memoir
Book Review: A great book
Summary: 5 Stars
While I can see how some of the other reviewers feel that this book's art is too much for them, at the heart of the matter this is still a beautiful book. There is a story here that is something everyone of us has experienced or can relate too, but this story is not cliche, its not sappy, it has a warmth to it all its own. Bob does a nice job of not only telling a good story, but making it sound damn cool too.
Summary of Stay Here With Me: A Memoir
The author journeys back in time to his youth on his grandfather's dairy farm in New Hampshire, where he suffered his father's alcoholism, fell in love for the first time, and discovered his avocation as a writer. Tour.Stay Here with Me is really a fictional "memoir" of Robert Olmstead's life. Though the main facts are true--he grew up on a farm, went to college at 19, and performed a variety of odd jobs in between cross-country motorcycle adventures--Olmstead is gifted in the art of embroidering facts. He describes in amusing detail how he and two other farm helpers lifted a ton stone, by hand, and boasts that he was so adjusted to natural time on the farm, he didn't learn to read a clock until he was 14. Readers will want to believe the brilliant and tender rendering of a youthful romance, though the young lady in question just might object to Olmstead's recollection of it.
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