"What's the opposite of premonition? There are people who 'know' things in advance, or say they do. I am not one of them. In fact, I frequently don't 'know' something even after it's already happened.... All of which is a roundabout way of saying that when my well-ordered life started unraveling, de
Bushman Lives!
β Scribed by Brown, Calef;Pinkwater, Daniel Manus
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Boston, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois--Chicago.
- ISBN
- 0547927789
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the 1960s, Harold Knishke, a Chicago teenager with a special place in his heart for Bushman, the famed departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a hometown adventure, in a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.;Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; 1. A Goon in My Room; 2. Breakfast with the Knishkes; 3. A Tutor Who Tooted the Flute; 4. Ars Longa Vita Brevis; 5. Walking Home; 6. Fame Game; 7. Bughouse Square; 8. Heiss Hunden; 9. Old Town; 10. It's (Not) Alive!; 11. Drawing from Life; 12. Ugly Mug; 13. I Am Surprised; 14. A Little Night Reading; 15. In the Rwenzoris; 16. Harp Music; 17. [Redacted]; 18. On the Bus; 19. Non Sibi Sed Patriae; 20. The Ballad of Harold Knishke; 21. Ol' Haro Knshkkgg; 22. Artistic District; 23. Street People; 24. How I Was Doing
β¦ Subjects
Illinois -- Chicago
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