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501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays

501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays

Ballantine, Poe

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ISBN10: 0976631199
ISBN13: 9780976631194
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: Sep 25 2007
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
Following in the tradition of Things I Like About America, acclaimed writer Poe Ballantine expertly combines stories of travel, misadventure, and what it means to live authentically in this raw and personal second collection of essays

Poe Ballantine's second collection of personal essays follows in the tradition of Things I Like About America. Stories range from The Irving, which details Ballantine's diabolical plan to punch John Irving in the nose after opening for him before an audience of 2,000 people that launched the literary festival, Wordstock; to Wide-Eyed in the Gaudy Shop, which tells how, in Mexico, the narrator met and later married his wife, Cristina; to Blessed Meadows for Minor Poets, the devastating tale of how after years of sacrifice and persistence, Ballantine finally secured a contract with a major publisher for a short story collection that never came to fruition.

Ever present in this collection of essays are the odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer that populate Mr. Ballantine's landscape and make his stories uniquely his own. The title story, 501 Minutes to Christ, was included in the Houghton Mifflin anthology, Best American Essays 2006.

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