Regarding Willingness: Chronicles of a Fraught Life Contributor(s): Harpole, Tom (Author), Rice, Daniel J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1736089404 ISBN-13: 9781736089408 Publisher: Riverfeet Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Essays - Travel | Special Interest - Literary - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers |
LCCN: 2020949469 |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.58 lbs) 202 pages |
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Publisher Description: 2020 MONTANA BOOK AWARD Honor Book. "Tom Harpole is what you might call a thinking man's Evel Knievel," - Aaron Parrett, author of Montana: Then and Now Tom "Harp" Harpole was a horse logger working from remote mountain camps and living in wall tents until an accident suggested a change of lifestyle. He took to his other avocation - writing, and studied abroad in Ireland. He began publishing stories in periodicals such as Smithsonian Air & Space, Sports Illustrated, Crocodil, Montana Quarterly, Whitefish Review, and more. In 1986 his story "The Last of Butch" (Faber & Faber, London) was selected as The Best Short Story in the British Isles. His work has been short-listed for the National Magazine Award twice, and translated into six languages. He has been a guest reader on NPR more than a dozen times. Harpole writes in a voice that uses his natural wit and humor to shed light on a life of stories that bring readers to the edge of danger. Certain magazines that assigned Harp feature articles knew early on that he would try anything that involved physical/emotional risks. He regarded himself as a Survivor's Euphoria aficionado. His willingness and perspective on dalliances with danger range from an N.F.L. record, to horse logging, to skydiving with Russian cosmonauts, to getting a black bear stoned, to his compassion as a volunteer EMT in rural Montana, to protesting Gorbachev in 1990, to driving ice roads above the Arctic circle, and more. This book is a collection of sixteen of his most popular stories. |