Old Songs in a New Cafe Selected Essays

by Waller, Robert James

• ISBN13: 9780446517980
• ISBN10: 0446517984
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-12
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Excavating Rachael's Room	p. 1
Slow Waltz for Georgia Ann	p. 9
Incident at Sweet's Marsh	p. 17
A Canticle for Roadcat	p. 25
Romance	p. 41
A Rite of Passage in Three Cushions	p. 53
The Boy from the Burma Hump	p. 63
Ridin' Along in Safety with Kennedy and Kuralt	p. 81
Jump Shots	p. 87
The Turning of Fifty	p. 97
I Am Orange Band	p. 111
Drinking Wine the New York Way	p. 117
In Cedar Key, Harriet Smith Loves Birds and Hates Plastic	p. 125
Brokerage	p. 133
Running into Perry	p. 137
The Lion of Winter	p. 141
One Good Road Is Enough	p. 147
Southern Flight	p. 157
A Matter of Honor	p. 165
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