John Jerome, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2620-7
Turning to the substance that is the source of all life, Jerome (Stone Work) once again demonstrates the humanity and story-telling skill with which he has turned subjects like delving into truck engines and building stone walls into absorbing...
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John Jerome, Author Viking Books $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-80195-4
Although Jerome ( Truck ) admits initially that building a stone boundary wall on his property in Massachusetts was ``about the dumbest piece of work I could conceive,'' he soon discovered the elemental satisfactions of maneuvering tons of stone...
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John Jerome, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-008881-6
In what PW judged ``wry, often metaphysical musings on physics and physiology,'' Jerome describes a year's work building a boundary wall on his property in Massachusetts, discovering the elemental satisfactions of maneuvering tons of stone into a...
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John Jerome, Author Viking Books $21 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-82885-2
In summing up his writing production in 1989, Jerome ( Stone Work ) enumerates one book review, a magazine feature, 15 600-word essays for a runner's calendar, ``some miscellaneous other short bits, and this manuscript.'' Not much in terms in output
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John Jerome, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50056-5
""It's going to happen to you,"" Jerome writes at the outset of this deeply personal (and occasionally depressing) memoir about growing old, ""and the outcome is ultimately going to be negative."" Inspired by a rereading of Henry David Thoreau,...
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