The Slow Air of Ewan Macpherson

by Averill, Thomas Fox

• ISBN13: 9780425190814
• ISBN10: 0425190811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Blue Hen Trade

Summary

Though it's not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whisky stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch, Ewan falls in love-at twelve years of age-with Shirley Porter. There's no turning back for Ewan. From that moment on, his heart has set its course. Through adolescence and into adulthood, through becoming a high school teacher, bagpipe instructor, loyal son, and keeper of all Scottish traditions, Ewan has found his one true passion-much like his father's obsession with single malt Scotch. A passion that-through trial and error-will teach him that love is an acquired taste...

Author Biography

Thomas Fox Averill has published two story collections, Passes at the Moon and Seeing Mona Naked, in addition to his previous novel Secrets of the Tsil Café. He is writer-in-residence and professor of English at Washburn University.

Table of Contents

Distilling Kansas	p. 1
Competitions	p. 19
Shirley Porter	p. 29
Hand-fasting	p. 41
Piper's Son	p. 55
Absence	p. 63
Porter, Cork and Cane	p. 85
Burns Nights	p. 103
Game Plans	p. 113
First Annual Scottish Highland Games, Glasgow, Kansas	p. 133
And Then	p. 151
More Matters of the Heart	p. 171
Apprentice Piper	p. 189
The Dying Piper	p. 217
Funeral	p. 225
Scotland, Kansas	p. 245
Wedding	p. 255
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