Overview
Ask Rinker Buck about his first job, and youāll get the enchanting and engaging account that not only captures the experience of being a ātwenty-two-year-old with the maxed-out brain,ā but also evokes a special time and place: the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts in the early 1970s. As a recent grad, Buck was determined to find his voice as a writer and every moment felt like a new world opening wide. His memoir First Job is, on its most basic level, the story of Buckās years as a cub reporter at The Berkshire Eagle, a great country newspaper in its glory years. But on a deeper level, it is a story that serves as a paradigm for everyoneās first job.
Buckās tale introduces the mentors who guided him through a raw and anxious time, lovers who exposed him to new levels of intimacy, and adventures that could only have happened to a young man who didnāt know any better. From Buckās impromptu job interview with the Eagleās venerable and eccentric publisher, Pete Millerāwho quizzed him on Civil War historyāto his picaresque adventures on the front lines of the sexual revolution, to his exhilarating hikes along the purple-black Berkshire peaks with Roger Linscott, he reconstructs a magical time in his life, a time when nothing seemed impossible or out of reach.
The first job experience and its meaning may be vastly underrated and misunderstood, but Buck shows that it is as timely and important as any other life passage. First jobs are our baptism into the real world, our immersion in to the real āstuffā of life. Everyone has a first job, and with rare storytelling power and emotions laid bare, Rinker Buck brings back just how it felt.
This book title, First Job, ISBN: 9781501143038, by Rinker Buck, published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (December 31, 2050) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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