In the canon
This Boy's Life
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1989
- Pages
- Pages 290
The epigraph is Wilde: the first duty in life is to assume a pose, and what the second is, no one has yet discovered. Then a boy and his mother, stalled on a mountain road with the radiator boiling, watch a truck loose its brakes and go over the edge, and drive on toward Utah anyway to make their fortune hunting uranium, which they never find.
Our car boiled over again just after my mother and I crossed the Continental Divide.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.