By Jim Lehrer
ISBN-10: 1588367886
ISBN-13: 9781588367884
BONUS: This version includes an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's pressure City.
Ever trustworthy and accountable, Otis Halstead is a father, a husband (one half a "well-dressed couple of substance"), and the CEO of Kansas critical hearth and Casualty. He hasn't ever performed whatever phenomenal. until eventually now.
The swap in Otis begins with an old toy fireplace truck, the precise version he had pined for at age ten yet by no means obtained. notwithstanding it's now a collectible costing $12,350, he'll purchase it--because he can. subsequent comes a Daisy crimson Ryder BB gun, ordered from the Nostalgia at the present time catalog. A Kansas urban Chiefs law NFL helmet follows. yet Otis's actual coup is the acquisition of his one real formative years ardour: a pink 1952 Cushman Pacemaker motor scooter. For his baffled spouse, Sally, this can be the ultimate straw. She insists that he see a shrink-- a sloppy guy with flowing hair who makes use of phrases like "mature males in crisis" and "second youth syndrome." Otis is unimpressed--and tremendous insulted--by the doctor's insinuation that his baldness is in charge for his unexpected curiosity in toys.
But it's no longer until eventually tragedy moves uncomfortably with reference to domestic that Otis comes to a decision he wishes out of his brilliant, secure lifestyles in Eureka, Kansas. And so, a couple of weeks sooner than his 60th birthday, Otis leaves city, heading west on outdated U.S. fifty six, a company CEO donning a soccer helmet, driving a forty-year-old motor scooter, and with a BB gun strapped to the facet. One may perhaps say he used to be in for an event. Otis might say he was once eventually approximately to event life.
Jim Lehrer has created an acute, laugh-out-loud, and endearing portrait of yank heart age. With ample wit and a pointy experience of the lives so much folks lead, Eureka takes us on a trip in the course of the unfulfilled goals of formative years. In Otis Halstead, Lehrer has created his such a lot excellent and successful personality so far.
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We children were packed sweatily skin to skin and atop each other's laps in the rear seat, which reproduced in miniature the messiness of the house with this new litter of empty RC Cola and Nehi bottles, funny papers, watermelon rinds, banana peels, greasy jack handles, oil-smeared gears of assorted sizes, and wads of old Kleenex. On the floor beneath my feet I even discerned (to my intense discomfort, for I had just learned to recognize such an object) a crumpled, yellowish used condom, left there haphazardly, I was certain, by one of the older daughters' boyfriends who had been able to borrow the heap for carnal sport.
And he was: wrhen we rushed to his side we saw that he had hiked himself up in bed, and his face for the first time in many hours wore an alert and knowing expression, as if he were at least partially aware of his surroundings. He had even regained his appetite. Edmonia had put a daisy in the buttonhole of his shirt, and at some point during his amazing resurrection, she said, he had eaten part of it. "You should have heard him just now," Edmonia said, leaning over the bed. "He kept talking about going to the millpond.
Dabney agreed, saying that he looked forward to a cool glass of iced tea, and we made our way back to the house along a little path of bare earth that-wound through a field glistening with goldenrod. Then, just as we arrived at the back of the house we saw the sheriff waiting. He was standing with a foot on the running board of his Plymouth sedan; perched on its front fender was a hulkmgly round, intimidating silver siren (in those days pronounced si-reen). He was a potbellied middle-aged man with a sun-scorched face fissured with delicate seams, and he wore steel-rimmed spectacles.
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