Gary Sutton
Autor de Corporate Canaries: Avoid Business Disasters with a Coal Miner's Secrets
Obras de Gary Sutton
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 63
- Popularidad
- #268,028
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 12
Moon was poor, but didn’t realize it. He enjoyed his life. He noticed, for example, that the town’s rich man “Doctor Throckmorton’s shirt. His sleeves had two buttons on each cuff and there were eight down the front.” He was perplexed. “I could get in and out of any of my shirts quicker than him, since mine had four buttons in total. I don’t know why his wife didn’t remove those unnecessary ones.”
He was illegitimate, his mother abandoned him, and he lived with his grandmother in a small town. Her car didn’t work well and she couldn’t afford to fix it. She got to school where she worked “first so she could park on that incline, guaranteeing her next start. If her battery failed, she just rolled the car down and popped its clutch, starting the engine…. Hopefully.” He was surprised to discover that Doctor Throckmorton’s house had two bathrooms. But, if you looked at Doctor Throckmorton, you noticed that his cheek wrinkles proved that he “spent more time frowning than smiling, while Grandma’ face cracked with happier lines.”
Readers will enjoy the book, despite its occasional sad moments, because they add to the delight of the story and because the tale is told well. They will also enjoy the frequent humor, such as the miracle of the X-ray machine in the Florsheim store in another city. “You could put your feet in the machine, flip a switch and view your toe bones inside a pair of shoes. This made the fit better and if done often enough, cured athlete’s foot.”… (más)