Loud Memories of a Quiet Life

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Tom Molanphy ISBN: 9781937402280
Publisher: Outpost19 Publication: April 16, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Tom Molanphy
ISBN: 9781937402280
Publisher: Outpost19
Publication: April 16, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

Quiet people are just like you and me. Except they hear more, they experience more, and they get into more trouble... They also know what a profound force quiet can be.

As a young boy, Tom stands quietly before nuns and soccer coaches, and in high school, as a lifeguard, he dutifully, quietly, keeps troubled families afloat. At summer camp surrounded by scores of rabid cheerleaders, he encounters a disturbing lack of quiet, and in college, after Mardi Gras, he wakes up, ever so quietly, to a fuzzy lost world. In Belize, he quietly watches science battle faith, and in Spokane, he witnesses how un-quiet life can be. In Montana, reading Keats gets him through tuberculosis, and in California, where he loses a brother, he returns to a place that stands far beyond speech.

"Tom's prose is as clean and strong as a Quaker chair."
Dee McNamer, Red Rover

"Tom Molanphy can destroy a lifetime of pretenses in a single line. It's like watching a soldier dismantle a bomb."
Jessica Hendry Nelson, The Fiddleback
 

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Quiet people are just like you and me. Except they hear more, they experience more, and they get into more trouble... They also know what a profound force quiet can be.

As a young boy, Tom stands quietly before nuns and soccer coaches, and in high school, as a lifeguard, he dutifully, quietly, keeps troubled families afloat. At summer camp surrounded by scores of rabid cheerleaders, he encounters a disturbing lack of quiet, and in college, after Mardi Gras, he wakes up, ever so quietly, to a fuzzy lost world. In Belize, he quietly watches science battle faith, and in Spokane, he witnesses how un-quiet life can be. In Montana, reading Keats gets him through tuberculosis, and in California, where he loses a brother, he returns to a place that stands far beyond speech.

"Tom's prose is as clean and strong as a Quaker chair."
Dee McNamer, Red Rover

"Tom Molanphy can destroy a lifetime of pretenses in a single line. It's like watching a soldier dismantle a bomb."
Jessica Hendry Nelson, The Fiddleback
 

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