The Age of Clear Profit: Essays on Home and the Narrow Road

by John Griswold

At age fifty, when many hope to slow down and what's left, as the poet Kobayashi Issa once wrote, is "clear profit," John Griswold was starting over--again--in a position he had worked decades to achieve. His family moved down the Mississippi Valley, expecting to create a good life with new friends.

What they found instead was a society "organized tightly by race, church attendance, and family name," which in its corruption, laissez-faire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820362816
• ISBN13: 9780820362816
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"