Dreamtime: A Happy Book - Paperback

by Samuel F. Pickering (Author)

Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickering-the inspiration for the main character in Dead Poets Society-guides us on a journey through his reflections on retirement, aging, gardening, and travel. He describes the pleasures of domesticity, summers spent in Nova Scotia, and the joy of sharing a simple life with his wife of almost forty years.

Front Jacket

Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous

Back Jacket

Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous

Author Biography

Sam Pickering is a native of Nashville, Tennessee. He has spent sixty-five years in schools, wandering classrooms in the United States and in sundry outbacks over the seas. For the past three decades he has taught English at the University of Connecticut. Pickering is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is a graduate of Sewanee, Cambridge, and Princeton. Dreamtime is his twenty-fifth book.