{"product_id":"bills-boys-paperback","title":"Bill's Boys - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eR. F. McEwen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA true American demotic, \u003ci\u003eBill's Boys\u003c\/i\u003e is a difficult register, but here's a poet able to tackle it.. Not since the late, great, Thomas McGrath has a poet spoken so clearly of working class life in its own true tone, as McEwen does here in grim stories from hardworking lives, unsparing, unsentimental but shot through with love and courage -- not least the courage of unsparing truths from the dark intersections between Irish and American histories, so rarely spoken of, much less examined. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWithout the whiskey he still had his spells\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eof standing-steady rolling when he'd grab\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe earless side of his damp head and squeeze\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eit hard, then knuckle it. The first time I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eremember it his eyes began to writhe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003elike molten stones. From corded neck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eon down his convoluted body rolled\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eand plunged and pitched while standing still, his feet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eclamped solid on the pitching floor. And while\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI cowered behind the sofa bed I saw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003emy mother leap beyond the kitchen with\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ea wet dish rag she flailed against his head\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eand face until he stopped, and she had flung\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eherself about him like a throbbing shawl.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1962 R. F. MCEWEN has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, working trees throughout the United States as well as in, during the late 1960's, Guyana, South America. In 1972 he began teaching Middle School English in Chadron, Nebraska, and is currently a professor of English at Chadron State College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42708229423167,"sku":"9781622884049","price":31.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/57330d00183c7bd4b8c20811c7d85000.webp?v=1765047050","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bills-boys-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}