{"product_id":"the-oneroom-schoolhouse-isbn-9780679747697","title":"The One-Room Schoolhouse","description":"In more than one hundred perfectly pitched, sometimes perverse, and always surprising stories, Jim Heynen displays his mastery of country wisdom, speech, and behavior as he reveals life in a Midwest where electricity is a magical novelty and cities a distant rumor. These are tales of farmboys finding their way, contending with grown-ups, city kids, birth, death, bats, rats, skunks, and even mean ponies. Or choosing between corncobs and peach tissues, hurling rotten eggs, getting in trouble, helping out, and trying to conceive of the mountains and oceans and forests they've never seen. Their adventures are an education in  the natural world, as well as an aknowledgment of what is both common and strange in human nature. Whether true of just funny, sad or even magical, \u003cb\u003eThe One-Room Schoolhouse\u003c\/b\u003e is indelibly American.\"Jim Heynen knows the secret passage that lets him into the minds of young country boys...as they encounter the realities of a distinctive way of life--isolated, harshly beautiful--that is vanishing from the American scene.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In language that's both poignant and simple, these hundred tales present an intimate, frank, and beautifully detailed portrait of rural life.\" --\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharply written...emotionally rich...[a] sublime gem.\"--\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003eJim Heynen lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and teaches at St. Olaf's College in Northfield.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305313816805,"sku":"NP9780679747697","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679747697.jpg?v=1767740794","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-oneroom-schoolhouse-isbn-9780679747697","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}