cover image Parsons Mill

Parsons Mill

Timothy Lewontin. Plume Books, $8.95 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-452-26420-5

When Lewontin answered an ad for a sawyer's apprentice, he was transported from a comfortable, middle-class existence to that of the blue-collar laborer. PW called this close-up view of daily life at Parsons' mill, a ramshackle New England sawmill that makes ash dowels for furniture and ladder rungs, ``a fine piece of Americana.'' (May)