From the Top, Michael Perry
From the Top, Michael Perry
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From the Top
Brief Transmissions from Tent Show Radio

Author: Michael Perry

Narrator: Michael Perry

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor


Synopsis

“I’m happy to go to the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit. I like to read Harper’s with a chaser of Varmint HunterMagazine. Maybe that’s why I enjoy a good show under canvas. Here we sit, brain-deep in arts and culture, but we’re also just people hanging out in a tent, some of us wearing logging boots, a few of us wearing Birkenstocks, but best of all we’re breathing free fresh air filled with music.” From Scandihoovian Spanglish to snickering chickens, New York Times best-selling author and humorist Michael Perry navigates a wide range of topics in this collection of brief essays drawn from his weekly appearances on the nationally syndicated Tent Show Radio program. Fatherhood, dumpster therapy, dangerous wedding rings, Christmas trees, used cars, why you should have bacon in your stock portfolio, loggers in clogs - whatever the subject, Perry has a rare ability to touch both the funny bone and the heart.©2013 Michael Perry (P) 2019 Michael Perry

About Michael Perry

Michael Perry is a humorist, radio host, songwriter, and the New York Times bestselling author of several nonfiction books, including Visiting Tom and Population: 485, as well as a novel, The Jesus Cow. He lives in northern Wisconsin with his family and can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wayne

"Bottom line is, I'm the kind of guy who's happy to attend the opera, but I should like to be allowed to wear steel-toed boots with my evening suit." - Michael Perry, 'From the Top..." Garrison Keillor makes me proud of my Minnesota roots, but my favorite home-spun Midwestern storyteller is across th......more

Goodreads review by Jaime

If this author were single, and I was single, I'd probably stalk him. Fell in love with Michael Perry all over again. Will be buying extra copies of this to gift.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

A pretty good book but it started off really slowly. I had to pick it up a couple of times in order to get going with it. For some reason the beginning just doesn't grab you all that much, but when the stories/essays get going, they're pretty wonderful. There are actually laugh out loud moments here......more