Paperback: 302 pages
Publisher: Hollow Square Press/CreateSpace, 2015
ISBN-10: 1511629835 ISBN-13: 978-1511629836
(Available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online bookstores and through your local bookstore.)
A life doesn’t come at you all at once. You experience it in bits and pieces. In this book Jonathan May picks up some of those pieces to examine. His dogs, his cats, his community over time. His younger years growing up in Sawyerville, Alabama, including the books and movies that helped form him. His years in New York working at Columbia University in the library of the school of journalism and in various government documents operations. His experience immersing himself in New York’s theater, ballet, and movies. His favorite restaurant, Fuji, and friends he made there. His mother and his father. Other mothers and fathers, including the Aleksandr Sokurov movies Mother and Son and Father and Son and William Faulkner's Sutpens and Bons in Absalom, Absalom! The author remembers friends and food, follies and fancies. At time it seems he may be making some sense out of it all. Or maybe he just sees better a path that he followed instead of a path that he planned.
Publisher: Hollow Square Press/CreateSpace, 2015
ISBN-10: 1511629835 ISBN-13: 978-1511629836
(Available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online bookstores and through your local bookstore.)
A life doesn’t come at you all at once. You experience it in bits and pieces. In this book Jonathan May picks up some of those pieces to examine. His dogs, his cats, his community over time. His younger years growing up in Sawyerville, Alabama, including the books and movies that helped form him. His years in New York working at Columbia University in the library of the school of journalism and in various government documents operations. His experience immersing himself in New York’s theater, ballet, and movies. His favorite restaurant, Fuji, and friends he made there. His mother and his father. Other mothers and fathers, including the Aleksandr Sokurov movies Mother and Son and Father and Son and William Faulkner's Sutpens and Bons in Absalom, Absalom! The author remembers friends and food, follies and fancies. At time it seems he may be making some sense out of it all. Or maybe he just sees better a path that he followed instead of a path that he planned.
This book and the memoir of his mother's family The Turbervilles of Greensboro, Alabama: Memories of a Family provide as good an account of the family, life and times, and some of the opinions of Jonathan May as the world is likely to see. For that possibly the world might be grateful. All of these are tell-somes instead of tell-alls, and the author does do a lot of speculation, carefully (he thinks) labeled.