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Sawdusted de Raymond Goodwin

Sawdusted

Autor Raymond Goodwin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2027

A memoir of grit, brotherhood, and the dignity in manual labor.

In the winter of 1979, college dropout Raymond Goodwin started work as a lumber stacker in a Northern Michigan sawmill. Though it was a rough, low-paying job without much room for advancement, Raymond's older brother, Randy, and an eclectic cast of characters made the work bearable and worthwhile. Underestimated yet full of opinions and common sense about the world, guys like Whiskey-Tim, the Tattoo Man, Lightning Joe, and their cohort of millworkers dealt with injury, addiction, family troubles, and love. Randy, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking sawyer, guided Raymond with quiet advice and a stoic presence, their bond fundamental to Raymond's ability to not only survive but thrive in the sawmill. Pivoting between hilarity and heartbreak, this memoir offers a glimpse into the complex legacy of Michigan's great lumbering tradition and the people who built it.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814353462
ISBN-10: 0814353460
Pagini: 130
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Wayne State University Press

Notă biografică

Raymond Goodwin received a 2011 Michigan Notable book award for Sawdusted, as well as a 2010 Outstanding Book award from the American Association of School Librarians and a 2010 Best Book for General Audiences award from the Public Library Association. He spent twenty-nine years in administration for Central Michigan University and now writes and performs solo plays, including The Last Man in Merrinsville and Wreck of the Gimpy Gin.

Recenzii

“Goodwin gets the wrong side of the tracks right in this rare, rich glimpse of working-class lives in the Upper Midwest’s industrialized backwoods. A painstaking and painful yet poetic and inspiring mill-hand’s chronicle of hell-raising and hard work.”—James P. Leary, author of So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest

“All-night bonfires, heavy drinking, and barroom brawls are what the reader may remember about Goodwin’s cast of characters, but his depiction of life in a declining Michigan sawmill town reflects a keen insight into people, passion, and survival in the Midwest.”—Jeremy W. Kilar, author of Michigan’s Lumbertowns: Lumbermen and Laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870–1905

Extras

He was tall, gangly, and forever grinning one of those grins you give a double take because the first glance hasn’t told you whether the grinner is daft or dangerous. Our friend the Cat was not daft, but, not altogether purposely, he may have been dangerous. The Cat was six foot four and 210 rangy pounds, the wrong size for instability.
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
 

Cuprins

Museums
Authorization
A Shot of Whiskey
The Blanched One
Routine
Scruff Scuffle
Yuletide Blur
The Cat
The Stacker
The Innocent
Bob Tale
The Rookie
Stig
The Rug
Lightning
Outside the Fence
Belated Author’s Note
Come and Get It
Sharpening
The Foreman
The Tree Lover
Stoics
The Tattoo Man
The Rat
The Transient
First Mill
Grunts
Baseball
The Sawyer
Once More to the Mill

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When Raymond Goodwin started work at a Michigan sawmill in 1979, the glory days of lumbering were long gone. But the industry still had a faded glow that, for a while, held him there. In Sawdusted Goodwin wipes the dust off his memories of the rundown, nonunion mill where he toiled for twenty months as a two-time college dropout. Spare, evocative character sketches bring to life the personalities of his fellow millworkers—their raucous pranks, ribbing, complaints about wages and weather, macho posturing, failed romances, and fantasies of escape.
    The result is a mostly funny, sometimes heartbreaking portrait of life in the lumbering industry a century after its heyday. Amidst the intermittent anger and resignation of poorly paid lumbermen in the Great Lakes hinterlands, Goodwin reveals moments of vulnerability, generosity, and pride in craftsmanship. It is a world familiar, in its basic outlines, to anyone who has ever done manual labor.
    At the heart of the book is a coming-of-age story about Goodwin’s relationship with his older brother Randy—a heavy drinker, chain smoker, and expert sawyer. Gruff but kind, Randy tutors Raymond in the ways of the blue-collar world even as he struggles with the demons that mask his own melancholy.